Sentences with phrase «where human teeth»

A third artist, Gina Phillips, has created a room - size installation in which a quilt, «Holt Cemetery Tooth Comforter,» makes reference to cemeteries in her adopted city of New Orleans where human teeth and bones emerge from freshly dug graves.

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Humans absorb strontium from local rock formations through water and plant foods, leaving a chemical signature in teeth that approximately maps where these people grew up.
Just how you should draw inspiration from the Discovery Channel's hugely popular weeklong coverage of these stealthy carnivores is open to interpretation, but there is no mystery to our enduring fascination with sharks: Their razor - sharp teeth and uncanny ability to sniff out prey remind us that there are still some places on Earth where humans are nowhere near the top of the food chain.
About 1,000 species can live in the human mouth, where different sides of the same tooth sustain distinctly different combinations of bugs.
This research has shown that these early human - like people were very clever about how they opened these large freshwater mussels; they drilled a hole through the shell using a sharp object, possibly a shark's tooth, exactly at the point where the muscle is attached that keeps the shell closed.
Such ornaments are ubiquitous in so - called Upper Paleolithic sites in Europe beginning about 40,000 years ago, where they were made from many different materials — animal and human teeth, bone and ivory, stone, and mollusk shells — and often varied widely among regions and sites.
A common element in the human body, calcium is critical to the health not only of your bones and teeth but of all bodily organs, including the skin, where it plays a role in regulating the skin's many functions.
The Devil's Teeth is a vivid dispatch from an otherworldly outpost, a story of crossing the boundary between society and an untamed place where humans are neither wanted nor needed.
Human teeth chew straight up and down, but animals chew in the back where the teeth are made to shear food into little pieces; like scissors, they go past each other.
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