Adding to the pain were the stark labels written on the shrouds: “Skull without a lower jaw”, “Bone fragments”, “Rib cage”, or “Upper and lower limbs”. Instead of names and ages ...

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 ...

Mom Taylor Deal, a labor and delivery nurse told Newsweek: "I had never seen an asymmetrical jaw however and so immediately I was concerned." ...

The genus was characterized by robust jaw and skull bones and was a muscular, more gorilla-like creature. Paranthropus was part of a line of close human relatives known as australopithecines ...

Several traits - including the shape of the brain and beak bones - are consistent with modern birds, specifically waterfowl.

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature ...

Skulls are where the most characteristic features of modern birds, such as a lack of teeth and an enlarged premaxillary bone ... skull preserves traces of a slender, pointed beak powered by ...

The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the Mesozoic Era.

Several traits - including the shape of the brain and beak bones - are consistent ... the research team says the skull preserves traces of powerful jaw muscles useful for overcoming water ...