But at first glance, having a single bone on each side of the head -- which creates a stiff lower jaw, or mandible -- doesn't appear to give mammals an advantage over other vertebrates, which have ...

Bite force, according to a study published in Frontiers, is the force that the muscles and bones of the upper and lower jaw generate when an animal bites. Animals with strong bite forces usually ...

The stranger approached the public counter at the San Bernardino Police Department carrying “what appeared to be deceased animal remains and a lower jaw that resembled a human,” the department ...

In a recent study, Associate Professor Makoto Ikeya (Department of Clinical Application) and his team of researchers ...

Using scans of around 100 living and extinct cetacean species, the team found that the jaw rapidly adapted at this time as the animals evolved a variety of different underwater lifestyles. These ...

What paleontologists long believed were long spines on the aptly named Alienacanthus turn out to be an extended lower jaw. By Jack Tamisiea Some 375 million years ago, armored fishes ruled a ...

This tiny bit of bone was found lying amidst Oldowan stone artifacts, well beneath a layer of Acheulean handaxes, cleavers, and other cutting tools dating back around 1.95 million years ago.