Sentences with phrase «mandible known»

The mostly complete cranium and mandible known as Skhul 5 was among the remains of 10 individuals found at the Israeli site.

Not exact matches

For example, the team found that many of the genetic differences were related to the biochemical function of metal ion binding, and metals are known to influence differences in pigmentation and mandible shape between the two T. cristinae ecotypes.

While at least four different groups of ants have independently evolved systems involving a latch, spring and trigger to power their fast - moving mandibles, the researchers have discovered that Myrmoteras ants» jaws work differently than those of any other known ant.

«We already know that there are biominerals present in the protein matrices and hard tissues of insects, which gives them high strength and hardness in their jaws, mandibles and teeth, for example.

«Unfortunately, there are very few fossil finds of Gigantopithecus — only a few large teeth and bones from the lower mandible are known,» explains Prof. Dr. Hervé Bocherens of the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment (HEP) at the University of Tübingen, and he continues, «But now, we were able to shed a little light on the obscure history of this primate.»

The fossil record of South Asian «river dolphins» is poor, with no taxa reported from undisputable remains (e.g., Prolipotes yujiangensis Zhou, Zhou & Zhao, 1984 is known only from an isolated mandible that can not be clearly diagnosed).

Tokummia documents for the first time in detail the anatomy of early «mandibulates,» a hyperdiverse sub-group of arthropods which possess a pair of specialized appendages known as mandibles, used to grasp, crush and cut their food.

The type and only known specimen consists of a partial skull, mandibles, isolated teeth, a right scapula, and carpal elements recovered from the Piña Facies of the Chagres Formation, along the Caribbean coast of Panama.

«We already know that there are biominerals present in in the protein matrices and hard tissues of insects, which gives them high strength and hardness in their jaws, mandibles and teeth, for example.

Known only through isolated teeth, haramiyids were largely mysterious until the discovery of the remarkably well - preserved jaw of Haramiyavia — with intact molars, nearly complete mandibles and postcranial skeletal bones — in Greenland in 1995 by a team including Shubin, Stephen Gatesy, professor of biology at Brown University, and the late Farish Jenkins, former professor of zoology at Harvard University.

Car geeks in the know might temporarily lose control of their mandibles when they see the four - seat phenom, but by and large you're treated no differently than if you were driving some other very pretty station wagon.

With respect to this, he states, The few studies which have been conducted of the structure of the skulls, mandibles and teeth of pit bulls show that, in proportion to their size, their jaw structure and thus its inferred functional morphology, is no different than that of any breed of dog.

As Dr. Lehr Brisbin of the University of Georgia told the American Pit Bull Foundation: «The few studies which have been conducted on the structure of the skulls, mandibles, and teeth of «Pit Bulls» show that, in proportion to their size, their jaw structure and thus its inferred functional morphology is no different than that of any breed of dog.»

To this day we have no idea how this happened but, without anesthesia, who knows how much longer she would have suffered before her broken mandible was diagnosed.

It was found by Dr Swediaur that ambergris very frequently contained the horny mandibles or beaks of the squid (Sepia moschata), on which the sperm whales are known to feed.