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(Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in Spain fossilized facial bones roughly 1.1 million to ... including parts of the cheekbone and upper jaw with the nasal structure. They are among the ...

Discovered in 1927, the jawbone wasn't recognised as truly ancient until it was radiocarbon dated in the 1980s.The jawbone was radiocarbon dated in the late 1980s resulting in the oldest directly ...

This hypothesis suggests that during mammalian evolution, the premaxilla—an ancestral jawbone—was lost, and its region was repurposed to form the nose, separating it from the upper jaw.

The face is one of the most distinctive features of vertebrates, diverged widely among species while maintaining a highly complex anatomical structure. Notably, mammals have a “nose” that can ...