In 1931, the Skhūl I fossil was uncovered at Mugharat es-Skhūl (the Cave of the Children), also known as Skhūl Cave, Israel.

Llamas are cute, but what makes them even better human companions is their gentleness and empathy. People from their native ...

Ancient protein fragments surviving in the chunky mandible, dubbed "Penghu 1", show it belonged to a male Denisovan, who lived sometime between 10,000 and 190,000 years ago.

When used as a donor site for a flap of bone to repair or rebuild the mandible, the donor section of the fibula is replaced with an osseointegrated implant—an artificial section of bone. The use of ...

The human skull has many components. In fact, in an average adult human, the skull combines 22 bones. One of these bones is the mandible, more commonly known as the lower jaw. Recognized as one of ...

Ziarah and Atkinson (11) dissected 76 human facial halves and also found marginal mandibular nerve distances to the inferior margin of the mandible no greater than 1.2 cm, but in 53% of the cases the ...

A European dentist helping his parents renovate their home discovered an ancient jawbone embedded in travertine tile. The man recognized immediately that the mandible “looked human.” Research ...

The discovery of a human mandible embedded in a travertine floor tile went viral on Reddit, and now the family is working with scientists to study the specimen.

A Redditor found what looked like a human jawbone embedded in the tiles of his parents' home. Multiple experts confirmed that it likely belonged to an ancient human ancestor, Homo erectus.

The sublingual glands produce very little saliva—only between 3% and 5% of the total volume—and make secretions composed predominantly of mucus, a slippery liquid that lubricates and protects organs.

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