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.

The hunting and gathering activities of early humans required a high-calorie diet consisting of a variety of ...

The coroners' office determined that the jaw bone was human. Police are now searching for that man. He is described as being Hispanic, between the age of 30 to 35, 5'7 weighing 160 lbs.

An unidentified man walked into a California police station Thursday and dropped off a human jawbone along with suspected animal remains, investigators said. The stranger approached the public ...

Homo erectus, an early human relative whose fossils have been found in Africa but also across Eurasia, ... The Homo erectus infant lower jaw bone was first unearthed in 1981.

Indeed, jaw pain can be excruciating, ... However, in front of the ears, two joints run connecting the lower jaw bone to the temporal bones of the skull, on each side of the head.

An "extraordinary" nose ornament made from human bone was discovered at the site of an ancient Maya city in Mexico. ... a representation of a human skull without a lower jaw is visible.

A group of North Texas doctors and scientists printed part of a human femur—the longest and strongest bone in the body—that ...

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 ...

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 ...

The coroners' office determined that the jaw bone was human. Police are now searching for that man. He is described as being Hispanic, between the age of 30 to 35, 5'7 weighing 160 lbs.

The coroners' office determined that the jaw bone was human. Police are now searching for that man. He is described as being Hispanic, between the age of 30 to 35, 5'7 weighing 160 lbs.