The IBA includes the undeveloped coast between Williamstown and Seaholme, including the Jawbone Reserve, Altona Coastal Park, Rowden's Swamp, the Cheetham Wetlands, Truganina Swamp, with the Spectacle Lakes complex and RAAF Lake of Point Cook Coastal Park.
Its MotionX mobile sensing technology is licensed by companies such as Nike, Jawbone, Pioneer and JVC.
The fossils of a lower jawbone and teeth of an extinct non-hominin ape discovered near Wushan County in 1985 was originally thought to be a 2 million year old primitive human known as Wushan Man.
A jawbone was found in 1978 in a fossil site known as the Punch Bowl near the town of San Remo.
Treatment for this often fatal cancer (Grealy reports an estimated 5% survival rate) led to the removal of her jawbone, and over the following years she had many facial reconstructive surgeries.
A jawbone from the animal was first discovered by H. T. Martin in Wallace County, Kansas, in 1911, and paleontologist Claude W. Hibbard documented it as a new species.
The symptoms are necrosis of the mandible (lower jawbone) and the maxilla (upper jaw) as well as constant bleeding of the gums and (usually) after some time, severe distortion due to bone tumours and porosity of the lower jaw.