Sentences with phrase «mandibles from»

Pliocene hominid mandibles from the Hadar Formation, Ethiopia: 1974 - 1977 collections.

A collage of mandibles from extant and extinct Old World monkeys and apes that were included in the study.

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It is theorized that this in turn came from the Proto - Indo - European root» * mendh -», meaning «to chew» (which is also where we get the word «mandible»).

The false - color 3 - D rendering of her mandible was constructed from 801 cross-sectional slices, each 129 microns thick.

It turned out the females descended from large - mandibled males had smaller - than - normal abdomens — a trait that is good for males, because it helps them carry the mandibles» weight, but bad for females, who need large abdomens to carry their eggs (Current Biology, DOI: 10.1016 / j.cub.2010.10.023).

Research published in Biology Letters in 2010 describes a 48 - million - year - old fossilized leaf from Germany that bears the distinctive scars of a bite from an ant's mandible on its main vein.

The specific forms of each coccolith most likely evolved under pressure from zooplankton, the microscopic animal group a notch up the food chain that developed mandibles, claws, and other accoutrements for getting past the hard calcite coccoliths.

From their first excavation, they claimed to have discovered several pieces of a humanlike skull, an apelike mandible, some worn molar teeth, stone tools, and fossilized animals.

The new study verifies that the mandibles do in fact aid the ants» survival by allowing them to eject themselves from a dangerous predicament.

Using advanced facial and cranial biomechanical analyses with nearly 40 people whose measurements were plotted from toddlers to adults, the UI team concludes mechanical forces, including chewing, appear incapable of producing the resistance needed for new bone to be created in the lower mandible, or jaw area.

Both mandibles, dating from about 30,000 years ago, had been excavated from a cave called Les Rois in southwestern France.

«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.»

Back in their labs, scientists led by biochemist Robert Hanus of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague went on to show that the blue termites always had shorter, worn - down mandibles than others from the same species, indicating that they were older.

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).

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.

Judging from skull and mandible fragments found in a cave in Israel in 1969, this young female Homo sapien lived between 100,000 and 90,000 years ago.

The partial human skull from Longlin Cave and the human calotte, partial mandibles and teeth from Maludong both present a range of individual features and a composite of characters not seen among Pleistocene or recent populations of H. sapiens.

Groves and Mazak claimed that the mandible was significantly different from H. erectus to deserve its own species designation.

Analysis of the digital X-ray pictures is generally performed with respect to bones from the head (zygomatic bone, maxilla, mandibles), teeth, scapulae, clavicle, ribs (number, shape, fusion), pelvis, vertebrae (numbers, shape and potential fusion of cervical, thoracic, lumbar, pelvic and caudal ones), limb bones (humerus, radius, ulna, femur, tibia), joints, digits and syndactylism.

Since then, Euro has been the unfortunate recipient of severe trauma from a dogfight that fractured his mandible (jawbone) and proptosed (pushed out of the socket) and ruptured his left eye.

If it doesn't, additional length of lip should be dissected from the mandible.

The subcutaneous tissue is stripped from the mandible using a periosteal elevator.

Bowie never sang about shooting The Spiders From Mars in the mandibles, did he?

In addition to the general characteristics of uniramians, these include a body composed of three tagmata, a head, thorax, and abodmen; a pair of relatively large compound eyes and usually three ocelli located on the head; a pair of antennae, also on the head; mouthparts consisting of a labrum, a pair of mandibles, a pair of maxillae, a labium, and a tonguelike hypopharynx; two pairs of wings, derived from outgrowths of the body wall (unlike any vertebrate wings); and three pairs of walking legs.