Everything about Quadrate Bone totally explained
The
quadrate bone is part of a skull in most
tetrapods, including
amphibians,
sauropsids ("reptiles"),
birds and early
synapsids. In these animals it connects to the
quadratojugal and
squamosal in the skull, and forms part of the jaw joint (the other part is the
articular bone at the rear end of the lower jaw).
In snakes, the quadrate bone has become elongated and very mobile, and contributes greatly to their ability to swallow very large prey items.
In
mammals the
articular and quadrate bones have migrated to the
middle ear and are known as the
malleus and
incus. In fact
paleontologists regard this modification as the defining characteristic of mammals.
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