Within its vast jaw are rows of teeth emerging like drawers in a filing cabinet.
Indeed, when comments such as "billion dollar biffo" or "glass jaw" are used, street violence becomes almost comedic.
Her face also is long and pointed, basically stone-gray, but the snout and lower jaw are jet black.
Salamanders and hylid tree frogs (having teeth in the upper jaw) are confined to the Palaearctic northwest.
(The president's ears, as well as Mitt Romney's granite jaw, are often in evidence in "Political Slant").
The teeth on one side of the jaw are essentially a mirror image of those located on the opposite side.
Officer Loor's only complaint, besides pain, was that "his cheek and his jaw are numb and he can't feel his nose on the left side," the doctor said.
The 1470 specimen was two million years old; the new face and fragmentary jaw are 1.9 million to 1.95 million years old; the better-preserved lower jaw is younger still, at 1.83 million years old.
Reptilian dermal roofing bones, lying superficial to the muscles of the jaw, are represented in mammals only by the jugal bone of the zygomatic arch, which lies under the eye.
Its halfway-house status is given away by the fact that its body scales and lower jaw are fishlike, while its skull, ear and neck are like those of an amphibian.
It has a long anal fin, a small dorsal fin near the large, flattened head, and six mouth barbels, two of which, on the upper jaw, are very long.
