The face is one of the most distinctive features of vertebrates, diverged widely among species while maintaining a highly ...

The story of how us humans—and other mammals—got our noses may have just gotten more complicated. This is the conclusion of a new study by researchers from Japan who have studied how the face develops ...

How did mammalian faces evolve from reptilian ones? Our study describes the morphological details of mouse craniofacial ...

First, the upper beak is primarily comprised of a bone called the premaxilla, while a second bone, the maxilla, is greatly reduced in size and contributes to only a small portion of the bony palate.