[White Lives Matter]

What are those small holes to the left and right side of the nose?

[JimRed]

What are those small holes to the left and right side of the nose?

Channels for blood vessels, probably.

[gundog]

Foramina. They accomodate blood vessels and nerves. The big hole that the spinal cord enters/exits the cranium through is the foramen magnum.

[Bigg Red]

Holes: We have them, too, but ours aren’t so large. Each one is an infraorbital foramen, In an opening in the maxillary bone of the skull that permits the passage of the infraorbital artery and the infraorbital vein,along with a nerve branch.

[mdmathis6]

They are passages for the facial arteries.

Put your fingers on either side, at the flares of your nose about 1/2 “ out and pointing inwards along the crease toward your eyes...you should be able to feel your pulses.

[AdmSmith]

What are those small holes to the left and right side of the nose?

The infraorbital foramen, an opening into the floor of the eye socket, is the forward end of a canal through which passes the infraorbital branch of the maxillary nerve, the second division of the fifth cranial nerve. But it is not only in humans here are some interesting examples



Comparison of sabre-tooth skull morphologies. (A) Skull of the felid saber-tooth Megantereon cultridens. (B) Skull of the ''marsupial saber-tooth'' Thylacosmilus atrox. Comparisons of sabertoothed skulls are usually portrayed in lateral view: this three-quarter view better illustrates the differences between these two animals (the splaying of the mandibles in T. atrox is exaggerated for effect)

and here is the horse