The mandible is attached to the major muscle groups of mastication (chewing) and the ligaments that make up the ...

ATEN-POUND bite requires a forty-pound contraction of the human jaw muscles. That is because the jaws are built on the principle of a pair of tongs, The power is applied near the joint ...

Commonly referred to as ‘TMJ,’ temporomandibular joint disorder can cause headaches, pain and clicking in the jaw.

To do this we needed to find out how much force the jaw muscles could create. We worked out how much muscle you can fit into the skull of our Temnodontosaurus using a combination of CT scanning to ...

Close investigation shows that the lower jaw of the animal is displaced with respect to the upper jaw, not in a purely horizontal or a purely vertical direction, but simultaneously in both ...