The hyoid bone is rarely discussed, but it a unique part of the human skeleton due to its horseshoe ... part of the neck between the jaw bone and the thyroid cartilage, and is firmly secured ...

Researchers also found additional relics like stone tools made from flint and quartz, as well as animal bones displaying cut ...

"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.

(Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in Spain fossilized facial bones roughly 1.1 million to ... including parts of the ...

It was easy for them to believe that the bones, a very thick skull about the size of a modern human's and a large, apelike jaw, were part of the same individual because that physiology was what ...

The bones are the oldest human fossils discovered in Western Europe, according to a study published this week in the journal Nature. The team uncovered the remains—an upper jawbone and a ...

The fossils — which may date back to 1.4 million years — were nicknamed “Pink” in honor of iconic rock band Pink Floyd.

The face is one of the most distinctive features of vertebrates, diverged widely among species while maintaining a highly complex anatomical structure ... that mammalian jaw bones were directly ...

The face is one of the most distinctive features of vertebrates, diverged widely among species while maintaining a highly complex anatomical structure ... that mammalian jaw bones were directly ...