Upon closer inspection, it appeared to be part of a human jawbone—and it still had a few teeth. The man could recognize the bone because he’s a dentist, according to a post he made on Reddit ...

"It was unclear at the time if the remains were real," police said. One of the bones was later confirmed to be a human jaw, they added in the department's Feb. 2 bulletin. 3 New Mexico High ...

Had a mechanical engineer designed the human frame, he would no doubt have built the jaws after the fashion of a nut cracker, with the muscles placed at the ends of the jaw levers, and the teeth ...

"In human fetal development, a temporary upper jawbone (incisivum) forms and later fuses with the maxilla, though reports on its ossification [bone formation] sites vary," the researchers explained.

We are currently awaiting the results of a new radiocarbon technique that will directly date the bone. The jawbone is currently recorded as a modern human, an identification that goes back to 1927.

A generation ago, many people who lost teeth due to age-related complications ... such as a CT scan to see a three-dimensional picture of your jaw bone, to make sure you have adequate bone quality ...

Russian scientists have created a personalized dental membrane, which is necessary for repairing damage to the jaw ... to treat bone defects of the jaws. When surgery is performed, the mucosal ...

And yet, its humerus (an arm bone) is quite human-like. Characteristics of ... skull, as well as a jaw and large teeth that were well adapted to chewing. Like some present-day apes, this species ...