Sentence examples for jaw structure from inspiring English sources

A diversity of mouth and jaw structure occurs in the perciforms; most of it is brought about by the various types of feeding behaviour.

Instead of simply analyzing their teeth and jaw structure to guess whether they might have been carnivorous, the researchers looked for more concrete clues.

The fossil record indicates that ancestors of the tuatara began developing the jaw structure for this unique chewing strategy about 180 million years ago.

According to a report in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, differences in the jaw structure, and parts of the skull where the spinal cord meets the brain, reveal the Portuguese remains to be a new species.

Going in closer on the wound, Sieswerda pointed out that it had ragged tooth marks on its edges and conformed in shape and size to the jaw structure of a shark.

He said that individual species of early Homo were more easily recognizable by jaw structure and facial features than by differences in brain size, which tend to be highly variable.

The skulls at Sima de los Huesos have Neanderthal-like teeth and jaw structures, and other similarities in the brow ridges and nasal apertures, or channels.

In particular, he says, alligators and caimans have distinct jaw structures due to different diets.

Almost all modern mammals, including placental mammals, like humans and deer, and marsupials, like kangaroos and opossums, share similarities in their jaw structures and musculature that allow for both pitch and yaw movements.

They note that the Dlx5/6 jaws not only exhibit dysmorphic lower jaw structures, but the upper jaw elements are also abnormal.

Several approaches can be taken to model the generation of novelty in jaw structures and for this project we chose a simple genetic model.