It had four sturdy limbs, a neck, a tail with fins and a skull very similar to the lobe-finned fish, Eusthenopteron.

The most generalized type was Coryphodon, representing the family Coryphodontidae, from the lower Eocene of Europe and North America, in which there were 44 teeth and no horn-like excrescences on the long skull, while the femur had a third trochanter.

Wicket-keeper Bert Oldfield's skull was fractured by a ball hitting his head ( although the ball had first glanced off the bat and Larwood had an orthodox field ), almost precipitating a riot by the Australian crowd.

They determined that it was a genuine skull from a young male leopard, but also found that the cat had not died in Britain and that the skull had been imported as part of a leopard-skin rug.

There was an egg case inside the skull that had been laid by a tropical cockroach that could not possibly be found in Britain.

There were also cut marks on the skull indicating the flesh had been scraped off with a knife, and the skull had begun to decompose only after a recent submersion in water.

By July 1847, several experts had identified the skull as the deformed foetal skull of a foal or calf.

In 1842, Johannes Theodor Reinhardt proposed that Dodos were ground pigeons, based on studies of a Dodo skull he had discovered in the royal Danish collection at Copenhagen.

Nebuchadnezzar, who had made a drinking-cup from the skull of a murdered Jew, was greatly astonished when, at the moment that the three men were cast into the furnace, the bodies of the dead boys moved, and, striking him in the face, cried out: " The companion of these three men revives the dead!

Measuring devices placed in the chamber to calculate the force of the blast were themselves destroyed by the explosion ; the skull of the dummy representing King James, which had been placed on a throne inside the chamber surrounded by courtiers, peers and bishops, was found a considerable distance from the site.

According to paleontology, the early hominids ' skull anatomy was similar to that of the gorilla and chimpanzee, great apes that also evolved in Africa, but the hominids had adopted a bipedal locomotion and freed their hands.

By 1997, the phrase had entered the legal lexicon as seen in an opinion by Supreme Court of the United States Justice John Paul Stevens, ' An example of " junk science " that should be excluded under the Daubert standard as too unreliable would be the testimony of a phrenologist who would purport to prove a defendant ’ s future dangerousness based on the contours of the defendant ’ s skull.

" If it had not been for Apollinaire in uniform ," wrote Cocteau, " with his skull shaved, the scar on his temple and the bandage around his head, women would have gouged our eyes out with hairpins.

Servants returned to bury her body but the dogs had devoured everything but her hands, feet and skull.

When Nicholas Elliott met Philby in late 1962, the first time since Golitsyn's defection, he found Philby too drunk to stand, and with a bandaged head ; he had fallen repeatedly and cracked his skull on a bathroom radiator, requiring stitches.

Police initially thought the skull was that of Malika Reyn-Bardt, who had disappeared in 1960 and was the subject of an ongoing investigation.

Xeroradiography revealed the blow on top of the head ( causing the V-shaped cut ) was caused by a relatively blunt object ; it had fractured the skull and driven fragments into the brain.

His simple origins became clear right after his election, when he wore a pectoral cross made of gilded metal on the day of his coronation and when his entourage was horrified, the new pope complained that he always wore it and that he had brought no other with him.

The damaged skull had been separated from the body and was found with a vulture pectoral wrapped around it.

Like all modern tetrapods, it had rib bones, a mobile neck with a separate pectoral girdle, and lungs, though it had the gills, scales, and fins of a fish.

Prior to the face turn, Brown had started wrestling with a chest protector, supposedly for a torn pectoral muscle sustained in a match against Dan " The Beast " Severn.

On the July 21 edition of Impact Wrestling, Morgan won a four man ladder match to climb to number three spot in the tournament's rankings, however, just four days later it was reported that Morgan had torn his pectoral muscle, which would sideline him for six weeks, ending his participation in the tournament.

Soon after Piccolo had surgery at Sloan-Kettering in New York City to remove the tumor, he had another surgery in April 1970 to remove his left lung and pectoral muscle.

The torso of Coelophysis conforms to the basic theropod body shape, but the pectoral girdle displays some interesting special characteristics: C. bauri had a furcula ( wishbone ), the earliest known example in a dinosaur.

Like most elasmosaurids, Elasmosaurus had around three pectoral vertebrae.

* In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Gawain returns from his battle with the Green Knight wearing the green girdle " obliquely, like a baldric, bound at his side ,/ below his left shoulder, laced in a knot, in betokening the blame he had borne for his fault.

After his death, Achilles slits Hector's heels and passes the girdle that Ajax had given Hector through the slits of the heels.

The last of them became king of the Scythians, according to his father's arrangement, because he was the only one among the three brothers that was able to manage the bow which Heracles had left behind, and to use his father's girdle.

According to Smith's sister Katharine, the angel " was dressed in white raiment, of whiteness beyond anything Joseph had ever seen in his life, and had a girdle about his waist.

Thingol had Melian use her magic to create a girdle of bewilderment around Eglador, so that nobody could enter without the king's permission.

Megatherium had a robust skeleton with a large pelvic girdle and a broad muscular tail.

The upper portion of the girdle had a flat scapular blade, with the glenoid cavity situated below performing as the articulation surface for the humerus, while ventrally there was a large flat coracoid plate turning in toward the midline.

When he was brought back to the monastery, it was discovered that he had bound his waist with a girdle made of palm fronds so tightly that days of soaking were required to remove the fibres from the wound formed.

In 1971 Galton in detail refuted Abel's arguments, showing that the first toe had been incorrectly reconstructed and that neither the curvature of the claws, nor the level of mobility of the shoulder girdle or the tail could be seen as adaptations for climbing, concluding that Hypsilophodon was a bipedal running form.

Pantyhose replaced girdles for many women who had used the girdle essentially as a means of holding up sheer nylon stockings.

Classical Greek had a verb () put a girdle around the loins, or " gird one's self.

After the death of Confucius, Ji Kang asked Yan how that event had made no sensation like that which was made by the death of Zi-chan, when the men laid aside their bowstring rings and girdle ornaments, and the women laid aside their pearls and ear-rings, and the voice of weeping was heard in the lanes for three months.

The new block had more webbing and a stud girdle for added rigidity of the crankshaft main bearings.

He had a garment of camels ' hair, and a leather girdle about his loins.

The final gem had 247 facets: 164 on the pavilion and crown, and 83 on the girdle.

The wooden frame often had a handle, and it was usually hung at the child's girdle.

And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins ; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.

For as everything hitherto had succeeded with him, he thought it necessary to depart, lest some unexpected calamity should happen to him by continuing to live ; with a smile, therefore, naked, anointed, and with the girdle round his waist, he leaped upon the pyre.

He claimed that the Devil had given him a magical girdle, which enabled him to metamorphose into " the likeness of a greedy, devouring wolf, strong and mighty, with eyes great and large, which in the night sparkled like fire, a mouth great and wide, with most sharp and cruel teeth, a huge body, and mighty paws.