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The Cook County Sheriff’s Office decided to reopen the Gacy file in 2011 as a cold case, exhuming bone fragments and sending eight sets of mandibles and maxilla to the CHI lab in Fort Worth for DNA processing.
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David Montesino, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Jan. 2024
Rolf Quam, Binghamton University) Sink Your Teeth Into This One Known as Misliya-1, the partial maxilla, with several teeth preserved in situ, is 177,000 to 194,000 years old.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2018
Thomas' team looked at the maxilla, or the upper part of the dog's jaw, because those tooth roots are best for DNA sampling, and researchers were able to pull samples from three specimens.
—Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
These more modern premaxilla, maxilla and dentary — collectively known as dermal marginal jaw bones — previously were seen only in bony fishes, or osteichthyans.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2013
Small skeletal details such as the shape of the upper jaw bone called the maxilla, the head of the thigh bone and the foot bones of Scleromochlus are similar to those of other reptiles proposed to be related to pterosaur origins.
—Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Oct. 2022
The front of his face — his nose, maxilla, sinuses, jaw — projected forward like a canine skull — what an anthropologist would call prognathous.
—Dwight Garner, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2021
Later today, Garvey will operate on a man with a more difficult case—a large tumor in the maxilla, or top jaw—as part of two surgical teams.
—Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 1 Feb. 2020
Bereino had found a maxilla, or upper jawbone, belonging to an ancient hominin.
—Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 28 Aug. 2019
David Montesino, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Jan. 2024
Rolf Quam, Binghamton University) Sink Your Teeth Into This One Known as Misliya-1, the partial maxilla, with several teeth preserved in situ, is 177,000 to 194,000 years old.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2018
Thomas' team looked at the maxilla, or the upper part of the dog's jaw, because those tooth roots are best for DNA sampling, and researchers were able to pull samples from three specimens.
—Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
These more modern premaxilla, maxilla and dentary — collectively known as dermal marginal jaw bones — previously were seen only in bony fishes, or osteichthyans.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2013
Small skeletal details such as the shape of the upper jaw bone called the maxilla, the head of the thigh bone and the foot bones of Scleromochlus are similar to those of other reptiles proposed to be related to pterosaur origins.
—Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Oct. 2022
The front of his face — his nose, maxilla, sinuses, jaw — projected forward like a canine skull — what an anthropologist would call prognathous.
—Dwight Garner, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2021
Later today, Garvey will operate on a man with a more difficult case—a large tumor in the maxilla, or top jaw—as part of two surgical teams.
—Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 1 Feb. 2020
Bereino had found a maxilla, or upper jawbone, belonging to an ancient hominin.
—Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 28 Aug. 2019
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“Maxilla.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maxilla. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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