It doesn't matter if the boning around the corset is slightly more flexible, so long as the bones at the front and back are fairly rigid.
The eastern green mamba has relatively long front fangs located at proscenium end of the maxillary bone at the very front of the maxilla, which can rotate at its axis with the prefrontal bone, giving this species more control of the movements of their fangs, unlike other elapids.
The lower margin of the bone is convex at the front, but concave further back, so that the depth of the dentary is 8.3 mm (0.33 in) below the diastema, but only 7.0 mm (0.28 in) below the third cheektooth.
Osteoclasts invading the bone were observed at the front of erosions and suggested a periosteum-derived, sometimes granulomatous, tissue.
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The nasal bones are rounded at the front, but blunt at the back.
Meanwhile, stone tools and animal bones were concentrated at the front of the cave, the researchers say.
Like modern piranhas, Megapiranha had serrated edges on its teeth, and like modern pacus, the bone has a hinge at the front where it would attach to the other half of the upper jaw.
The dentary (tooth-bearing lower jaw bone) was squared off at the front edge, as in Giganotosaurus, and shallow, while the rest of the jaw behind it became very deep.
