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JAWS

May 22, 2019

Real-world inspiration for mobile vertebrate jaw configurations, especially "splitting" and laterally closing jaws. Click on images for attribution links. Northern Right Whale skull: Southern Right Whale skull: Reticulated Python jaws: Everted mouth flaps of the agamid lizard Phrynocephalus mystaceus: Sarcastic Fringehead threat display: Pharyngeal jaws (moray eel): Stoplight Loosejaw: The protrusible jaws of teleosts generally are informative and inspiring, though I'm having trouble finding a diagram at decent image size. https://s3.amazonaws.com/classconnection/480/flashcards/3239480/png/teleost-150C9BA3A315098F954-thumb400.png No