Sept 28 (Reuters) - For human beings and 99.8% of our fellow vertebrates, having jaws is an integral part of life. Just try eating a taco without them. But, like everything else in our bodies, jaws ...

Jaws stars Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss - Alamy Jaws, perhaps the most famous four-letter title in literary and movie history, was, according to Doubleday editor Thomas E. Congdon, ...

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Whole skeleton of Dipterus, an extinct lungfish from the middle Devonian period. Specimen (UMMP 16140) from the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology. ANN ARBOR—If you're reading this sentence ...

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Tiktaalik, the 375-million-year-old fish fossil, is best known for its anatomy suggesting it may have walked out of the water and is also a very popular meme. Sung to the tune of The Killers’ Mr.

Gars are the ultimate living fossils, having changed at an incredibly slow pace since their ancestors emerged during the dinosaur age 150 million years ago, scientists have revealed. This leisurely ...

Paleontologists unearthed fish teeth that are 14 million years older than any other teeth found from any species – and the discovery could rewrite our understanding of early evolution. Four studies ...

A fish fossil has been found in the UK featuring a 'tongue bite'. This is the first time it has been seen in such an ancient ...

Jaws’ Mayor Vaughn seems a little too reckless with people's lives—almost like his business is death, not tourism.

A trade-off between tooth size and jaw mobility has restricted fish evolution, Nick Peoples at the University of California Davis, US, and colleagues report in the open-access journal PLOS Biology.