From the 20-foot-long jawbones of the filter-feeding blue whale to the short, but bone-crushing, jaws of the hyena and the delicate chin bones of a human, the pair of lower jawbones characteristic of ...

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This story was updated at 11:00 AM June 1 The basic decision-making circuitry underlying social behaviors such as fighting and mating is incredibly similar in all vertebrates, from fish to mammals, ...

Paleodietary studies of the fossil record are impeded by a lack of reliable and unequivocal tracers. Scientists have now tested a new method, the isotope analysis of zinc isotopes from the tooth ...