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Aletopelta

The skeleton including femora, tibiae, fibulae and incomplete parts of a scapula, humerus, ulna, left and right ischium, vertebrae, ribs, partial armor over the pelvic girdle plus at least 60 detached armor plates and 8 teeth was found in the Late Cretaceous (Upper Campanian) marine Point Loma Formation, near Carlsbad, California.

Aliens in the Attic

An alien crew emerges, made up of Skip (J. K. Simmons), the tough commander, Tazer (Thomas Haden Church), a muscle-bound dude armed to the teeth, Razor (Kari Wahlgren), a lethal female alien soldier, and Sparks (Josh Peck), a four-armed techie, who is the only non-threatening intruder.

Axenfeld syndrome

Although most recognized for its correlation with the onset of glaucoma, the malformation is not limited to the eye, as Axenfeld syndrome when associated with the PITX2 genetic mutation usually presents congenital malformations of the face, teeth, and skeletal system.

Ayod County

The Jonglei minister of law enforcement, Gabriel Duop Lam, said that absence of mid-lower teeth and small body scars on the bodies of the attackers indicated they were Murle people.

Bolivian river dolphin

In 1973, however, a fresh study concluded that the specimens from Bolivia had more teeth than the specimens from elsewhere and that the rapids and water falls of the Madeira River acted as a barrier, effectively isolating the Bolivian population.

Boreogomphodon

Boreogomphodon was distinguished from other traversodontids like the African Luangwa and the South American Traversodon on the basis of its postcanine teeth.

Botis

He is depicted as an ugly viper, but when he changes shape, he puts himself in human shape, with big teeth and two horns.

Bu Laia

Bu Laʻia (born as Shawn Kaui Hill in Waimanalo, Hawaii) is a Hawaiian comedian known for his use of Hawaiian pidgin and for wearing a large "afro style" wig and blacking out one of his front teeth while performing.

Deproteination

This procedure is particularly common in studies on the inorganic part of bone, teeth and shells.

Diplomystidae

Diplomystids are the only extant catfish family with teeth on a well-developed maxilla (although this is also true of the extinct genus Hypsidoris).

Dukecynus

Dukecynus was discovered in the strata of La Venta in the department of Huila and Tolima in Colombia, where the fossil remains were found: the lower jaw and upper jaw with teeth (holotype specimen IGM 251149), more some referred molar teeth.

Easy to Wed

Van Johnson's biography, MGM's Golden Boy states that Lucille Ball's performance as Gladys "reveals the embryo of her Lucy Ricardo role in the later I Love Lucy television series," and also states that Keenan Wynn had been in a motorcycle accident before filming, had his mouth wired shut, and as a result, he had to talk between his teeth while losing thirty pounds in four weeks.

Eudimorphodon

In 1986 fossil jaw fragments containing multicusped teeth were found in Dockum Group rocks in western Texas.

Ferganocephale

Robert Sullivan however, in 2006 disputed the pachycephalosaur classification, finding "few of the features ... are characteristic of pachycephalosaur teeth," citing the lack of serrations on the teeth, and concludes the specimens are "too incomplete for identification".

Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire!

They have released the independent EPs You Seize the City, I'll Seize the Sky (2006) and Boy, Hush Yr Mouth, Grrl Bare Yr Teeth (2007), and full length studio album Sea Priest (2010).

Gymnarthridae

In some genera, such as Bolterpeton and Cardiocephalus, the teeth are labiolingually compressed.

Haramiyida

Butler & Hooker, (2005) maintain that 'haramiyids' are still stronger candidates for having given rise to the multituberculates than morganucodontids are: "As long as we only have teeth to of the critical taxa, we feel it necessary to adopt the Allotheria concept as a working hypothesis; no doubt the discovery of mammalian skeletal material in the Jurassic will throw new light on the problem", (p. 206).

History of Chongqing

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.

Hypsamasia

Hypsamasia seni was named in reference to its high crowned cheek teeth (Greek: hypsos, "height"), the type locality (the Roman town and province Amasya), and after Dr Sevket Sen for his important contribution to the paleontology and geology of western Asia.

Hypselospinus

In May 2010 the fossils comprising Hypselospinus were by David Norman reclassified as a separate genus, among them the holotype BMNH R1635, consisting of a left ilium, a sacrum, tail vertebrae and teeth.

Kieran Marmion

Marmion, who was born in Wales to Irish parents, cut his rugby teeth at Kirkham Grammar School, where he was part of their successful sevens team.

La Romana Province

The "Teeth of the Dog" golf course is world-renowned, and many international and local artists perform at "Altos de Chavón", an artistic community and university.

Lavanify

Two teeth of Lavanify were discovered in 1995–1996 during joint expeditions of the State University of New York, Stony Brook University, and the University of Antananarivo to the late Cretaceous (mostly Maastrichtian, about 71 to 66 million years ago mya) Maevarano Formation of northwestern Madagascar.

Lo's Diary

Most notably, the novel takes the interpretation of Humbert as being unattractive or repulsive: he even loses his teeth at one point.

Lovie Austin

A fancy dresser and a well-liked person, she was often seen racing around town in her Stutz Bearcat with leopard skin upholstery, dressed to the teeth.

Lusitanisuchus

Several teeth referable to Lusitanisuchus were also found from Porto Dinheiro, Lourinhã in strata deposited during the Berriasian stage of the Early Cretaceous, extending the temporal range of this taxon by about 15 Ma.

Michael Burns

Burnie Burns (born 1973), independent filmmaker, founder of Rooster Teeth

Mitchell Langerak

But it was a painful debut as he smacked his face in the post when failing to stop a goal from Lorenzo Insigne, leaving Langerak with two chipped front teeth.

Monty Python's Personal Best

It then cuts to a fairytale starring the troupe ("The Princess With The Wooden Teeth" from Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus), which then cuts to a poolside interview of a cranky, senile old man (Cleese) by Dayna Devon, a reporter.

Morning Advertiser

Charles Dickens was an early contributor to the paper and Alastair Campbell cut his teeth as a reporter on the paper early in his career.

Nanocetorhinus

Nanocetorhinus was described by Underwood and Schlogl in 2011, from 28 partial and complete fossil teeth (holotype: Z 27485) discovered at Cerová-Lieskové, Vienna Basin, in Slovakia.

Old Man Markley

The band's debut album "Guts n' Teeth" released on Fat Wreck Chords on January 18, 2011.

Oscar Méténier

His oily skin with the blackish-yellow colour of hepatics, proud teeth which he hardly cared for, a soldierly and pomaded moustache.

Paleontology in Maryland

Tyson took the dinosaur teeth to a local doctor named Christopher Johnston.

Paralouatta

This cranium and a number of isolated teeth and postcranial bones were found in a cave site in Pinar del Río Province.

Peter Mulholland

While playing in Group 6, Mulholland cut his coaching teeth under the watchful eye of Brother Silverius at St Gregory's College, Campbelltown.

Phraya Phichai

The Thai people loved chewing betel nut, which made their teeth black, since the ancient time until the Government under the premiership of Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram issued ban on chewing the nut in 1942.

Radioactive quackery

Many brands of toothpaste were laced with radioactive substances that were claimed to make teeth shine whiter, such as Doramad Radioactive Toothpaste.

Rhino Bucket

In April 2006 Rhino Bucket released And Then It Got Ugly and then proceeded to tour with like minded friends Broken Teeth, The Supersuckers and Kix.

Royal Saxon tomb in Prittlewell

The acidic sandy soil had completely dissolved the body's bones, and any other bone in the tomb, but some pieces of human teeth were found, but too far affected by decay for DNA to be found in them.

SCP – Containment Breach

Gaming website Rock, Paper, Shotgun said "It’s Warehouse 13 without the quips and the quirks but with a lot more panic, screaming and hiding from creatures made of teeth and wire" adding that "it has a fairly weak model and texture at the moment but hopefully it’ll turn into a massive collaboration".

Shape-memory alloy

One example is the prevalence of dental braces using SMA technology to exert constant tooth-moving forces on the teeth; the nitinol archwire was developed in 1972 by orthodontist George Andreasen.

Sinocoelurus

Famous Chinese paleontologist Yang Zhongjian (in older references his name is given as C. C. Young) named this genus from IVP AS V232-234, a group of four isolated partial teeth found near Weiyuan, Guangyuan, Sichuan Basin.

Table knife

The origin of this, and thus of the table knife itself, is attributed by tradition to Cardinal Richelieu around 1637, reputedly to cure dinner guests of the unsavoury habit of picking their teeth with their knife-points.

Ted Pooley

According to David Frith in The Fast Men, at an unspecified date (probably before 1871) Jem Mace, the boxer, was watching cricket at Lords when a ball hit a crack in the pitch and took out three of wicket keeper Ted Pooley's teeth.

Teófilo Stevenson

In 1999, Stevenson was arrested at Miami International Airport when, before boarding a United Airlines chartered jet that would take the Cuban national boxing team home, he allegedly headbutted a 41 year old United Airlines ticket counter employee, causing him to break his teeth.

Uatchitodon

The teeth are similar to those of living venomous squamates such as Heloderma and venomous snakes.

Urbacodon

The type species, U. itemirensis, was named by Alexander Averianov and Hans-Dieter Sues in 2007 on the basis of a single left dentary with teeth from the Cenomanian Dzharakuduk Formation.

Whispers: The Voices of Paranoia

Mrs. Tolman explains Dr. Tolman's obsession with the film El Topo, and the fact that he grinds his teeth at night.

Yangchuanosaurus

Yangchuanosaurus zigongensis is known from four specimens including ZDM 9011 (holotype), a partial postcranial skeleton; ZDM 9012, a left maxilla; ZDM 9013, two teeth and ZDM 9014, a right hind limb.


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