ATEN-POUND bite requires a forty-pound contraction of the human jaw muscles. That is because the jaws are built on the principle of a pair of tongs, The power is applied near the joint ...

A group of scientists have discovered the jaw bone of an ancient human species that lived about 1.4 million years ago. The ...

scientists have discovered another human relative that had been previously unknown. A new study found that a 1.4 million-year-old jaw belonged to the genus Paranthropus from southern Africa.

It was easy for them to believe that the bones, a very thick skull about the size of a modern human's and a large, apelike jaw, were part of the same individual because that physiology was what ...

This implies that the mammalian upper jaw underwent a major structural reorganization, setting it apart from that of reptiles. By comparing mouse data with human craniofacial development in the ...

He made the following discoveries: the human jaw has one bone, not two the human breastbone has three parts, not seven blood does not flow into the heart through invisible holes in the septum (the ...