The episode is referenced in Plutarch's Life of Theseus, in description of Theseus ' method of slaying his assailants by returning " the same sort of violence that they offered to him ," as Heracles killed Termerus by “ breaking his skull in pieces ( whence, they say, comes the proverb of ' a Termerian mischief '), for it seems Termerus killed passengers that he met by running with his head against them .”

The figure seems to be an allegorical representation of a seated figure with a severed upper torso and a skull for a head.

His cartoon, also drawn in 1830, was entitled Awful Changes and depicted an ichthyosaur professor lecturing on a fossilised human skull: " ' You will at once perceive ' continued Professor Ichthyosaurus, ' that the skull before us belonged to some of the lower order of animals ; the teeth are very insignificant, the power of the jaws trifling, and altogether it seems wonderful how the creature could have procured food.

Despite this, the dividing line between dwarfs and humans seems somewhat blurred, and Pratchett has hinted that humans and dwarfs can interbreed ; for example, Nanny Ogg's thick skull is put down to dwarfish ancestry.

These data render the assertion of prokinesis in the skull of Protoavis questionable at best, and it seems most parsimonious to conclude that the specimen displays a conventional opisthostylic quadrate.

Most dinocephalians also developed pachyostosis of the bones in the skull, which seems to have been an adaptation for intra-specific behaviour ( head-butting ), perhaps for territory or a mate.

When Dr. Fendelman starts using a sonic time scan, trying to get an image of the owner of the skull, the skull itself seems to react, locking onto Thea and releasing something in the priory grounds that kills a passing hiker, who eventually totally disintegrates.

Maur's skull is brought to the castle as a trophy but its presence seems to taunt Aerin, talking to her and making her failing mental health even worse.

Canoidea have more premolars and molars in an elongated skull.

In comparing the skulls of carnivores and herbivores, it can be seen that the shearing force of the temporalis is somewhat more important to carnivores, which have more room on the braincase ( this is not unrelated to carnivoran intelligence ) and commonly develop a sagittal crest ( running from posterior to anterior on the skull ), providing yet additional room for temporalis attachment.

A hominid skull was been found by Michel Brunet in 2002, in Borkou, that is more than 7 million years old, the oldest discovered anywhere in the world ; it has been given the name Sahelanthropus tchadensis.

The foramen magnum migrated under the skull and more anterior.

There is also a median lump, which is more prominent in males, at the front of the skull.

One of the smallest in marsupials with no more than 0. 2 % of its body weight, about 40 % of the cranial cavity is filled with cerebrospinal fluid, while the brain's two cerebral hemispheres are like " a pair of shrivelled walnut halves on top of the brain stem, in contact neither with each other nor the bones of the skull.

Pocock distinguished A. f. styani from A. f. fulgens by its longer winter coat and more abundant blackness in the pelage, bigger skull, more strongly curved forehead, and more robust teeth.

In cases involving an Arnold-Chiari malformation, the main goal of surgery is to provide more space for the cerebellum at the base of the skull and upper cervical spine without entering the brain or spinal cord.

Indeed, the power of theta frequency in the EEG increases with working memory load, and oscillations in the theta band measured over different parts of the skull become more coordinated when the person tries to remember the binding between two components of information.

He agreed and, in her words, " sawed open my skull, and raised it up, and now it feels more comfortable.

In 1823 she discovered a second even more complete plesiosaur skeleton ( the first one had been missing the skull ).

More recent theories, noting the presence of blood vessels in the skull bones of ceratopsids, find it more probable that these features were primarily used in identification, courtship and dominance displays, much like the antlers and horns of modern reindeer, mountain goats, or rhinoceros beetles.

In 1949, C. M. Sternberg was the first to question this and favoured instead that Triceratops was more closely related to Arrhinoceratops and Chasmosaurus based on skull and horn features, making Triceratops a ceratopsine ( chasmosaurine of his usage ) genus.

Unlike most animals, skull fossils are far more common than postcranial bones for Triceratops, suggesting that the skull had an unusually high preservation potential.

It took a third and much more complete skull to change his mind.

These findings, however, were contested a few years later by Catherine Forster, who reanalyzed Triceratops material more comprehensively and concluded that the remains fell into two species, T. horridus and T. prorsus, although the distinctive skull of T. (" Nedoceratops ") hatcheri differed enough to warrant a separate genus.

Greatly interested by the finds, Woodward accompanied Dawson to the site where, although the two worked together between June and September 1912, Dawson alone recovered more fragments of the skull, and half of the lower jaw bone.

The validity of the specimen has always been questioned .” Eventually, during the 1940s and 1950s, more advanced dating technologies, such as the fluorine absorption test, proved scientifically that this skull was actually a fraud.

The influence of nationalism was clear in the differing interpretations of the find: whilst the majority of British scientists accepted the discovery as " the Earliest Englishman ", European and American scientists were considerably more sceptical, and several suggested at the time that the skull and jaw were from two different creatures and had been accidentally mixed up.

Although Simon initially considered calling this character Hot Fudge, the cherry on top seemed like an exposed skull as its head and he decided that the Red Skull was a more appropriate moniker.

Some more ferocious ones are shown with flaming red eyes and flaming hair, drinking blood with their palms or from a human skull.

Intramembranous ossification mainly occurs during formation of the flat bones of the skull but also the mandible, maxilla, and clavicles ; the bone is formed from connective tissue such as mesenchyme tissue rather than from cartilage.

Less than a week after the government report, a boy was walking by the River Fowey when he discovered a large cat skull.

In 2006 the European Food Safety Authority ( EFSA ) stated that the SSC opinion was confirmed, that the BSE risk of bone-derived gelatin was very small, and removed support for the 2003 request of excluding the skull and vertebrae of bovine origin older than 12 months from the material used in gelatin manufacturing.

The brown hyena's skull is larger than the striped hyena's skull.

Sexual dimorphism is also apparent in the skull ; adult males have longer lower jaws than females, and have larger occipital crests.

Its skull and neck structure suggest an animal that fought using high-speed impacts, much like the dall sheep, rather than locking and twisting antlers the way modern moose combat.

The skull and upper finn structures are very similar to those of the first tetrapods, yet the limbs terminated in fins with fin-rays rather than feet with digits.

The teeth extended farther back into the jaw than in close relatives, as some were present below the front of the nasoantorbital fenestra, the largest opening in the skull.

Five reasons were given: the body was of an adult male ; it was buried beneath the choir of the church ; there was scoliosis of the spine, making one shoulder higher than the other ; there was an arrowhead embedded in the spine ; and there were perimortem injuries to the skull.

However, it was later suggested the anapsid-like turtle skull may be due to reversion rather than to anapsid descent.

* Italian wild boar Sus scrofa majori: A subspecies smaller than S. s. scrofa with a higher and wider skull.

However, a newer study compared incidence rates of skull lesions and periosteal reaction in Triceratops and Centrosaurus and showed that these were consistent with Triceratops using its horns in combat and the frill being adapted as a protective structure, while lower pathology rates in Centrosaurus may indicate visual rather than physical use of cranial ornamentation, or a form of combat focused on the body rather than the head.

However, it was later suggested the anapsid-like turtle skull may be due to reversion rather than to anapsid descent.

The skull of a pygmy hippo has less pronounced Orbit ( anatomy ) | orbits and nostril s than a common hippopotamus.

Dingo skull illustrated by Frédéric Cuvier: As is typical in domestic dogs, the dingo's relative brain size is smaller than that of all non-domesticated subspecies of Gray wolf | wolves, being almost identical in size to that of dogs considered Canis lupus familiaris.

Several adaptations combine to protect the woodpecker's brain from the substantial pounding that the pecking behaviour causes: it has a relatively thick skull with relatively spongy bone to cushion the brain ; there is very little cerebrospinal fluid in its small subarachnoid space ; the bird contracts mandibular muscles just before impact, thus transmitting the impact past the brain and allowing its whole body to help absorb the shock ; its relatively small brain is less prone to concussion than other animals '.

The skull was inspiration behind the album Melissa, and the title track of the album is very different from the rest of the album, as it is much slower than the other songs ( which are speedier and more aggressive ).

The skull was longer than in Smilodon and had a well-developed crest, where muscles were attached to power the lower jaw.

Magnetic fields are less distorted than electric fields by the skull and scalp, which results in a better spatial resolution of the MEG.