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 the ...

This article by David Roza originally appeared on Task & Purpose, a digital news and culture publication dedicated to military and veterans issues. A lucky Marine made military medical history by ...

A fossil of the 23-foot-long predator could help unlock secrets of an order of dinosaurs that remain poorly understood.

Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaurs chomped through bone by keeping a joint in their lower jaw steady like an alligator, rather than flexible like a snake, according to a study being presented at the American ...

The lower jaws of lizards, birds, fish and even dinosaurs are comprised of multiple bones per side. Yet mammals diverged from all other vertebrates and settled on just one bone, repurposing the extra ...

Far up in the Ethiopian highlands, the resounding strike of stone against stone was probably a familiar one two million years ago. Ancient hominids chipped away to create simple tools: hammerstones ...

A German who had his lower jaw cut out because of cancer has enjoyed his first meal in nine years — a bratwurst sandwich — after surgeons grew a new jaw bone in his back muscle and transplanted it to ...

Dctors used a section of Demetri Pristouris' fibula bone in his lower right leg to replace part of his right jaw, where a benign tumor was. Stacy Pristouris This lucky Brooklyn kid already has a leg ...

From the 20-foot-long jawbones of the filter-feeding blue whale to the short, but bone-crushing, jaws of the hyena and the delicate chin bones of a human, the pair of lower jawbones characteristic of ...