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.

Marsh also reclassified all the previously named North American species from Pterodactylus to Pteranodon, with the larger skull, YPM 1117, referred to the new species Pteranodon longiceps.

He placed P. sternbergi into the genus named by Miller, Geosternbergia, along with the Pierre Shale skull specimen which Bennett had previously considered to be a large male P. longiceps.

It could have killed him if it struck him where his skull was previously fractured.

German anatomist Ernst Schwarz is credited with having discovered the bonobo in 1928, based on his analysis of a skull in the Tervuren museum in Belgium that previously had been thought to have belonged to a juvenile chimpanzee.

During restoration of the church in 2000, his skull was discovered in a lead casket, having previously been accidentally disinterred during the 1870s.

A traditional method that remains popular today involves retaining the original skull and leg bones of a specimen and using these as the basis to create a mannequin made primarily from wood wool ( previously tow / hemp wool was used ) and galvanised wire.

The idea of the analogy between the skull, or parts of the skull, and the vertebral column had been previously propounded and ventilated in their lectures by Johann Heinrich Ferdinand von Autenrieth and Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer, and in the writings of Johann Peter Frank.

In this issue many of the remedies previously in use were omitted, although a good number were still retained, such as dogs ’ excrement, earthworms, and moss from the human skull ; the botanical names of herbal remedies were for the first time added to the official ones ; the simple distilled waters were ordered of a uniform strength ; sweetened spirits, cordials and ratafias were omitted as well as several compounds no longer used in London, although still in vogue elsewhere.

This newer fossil's skull also suggested a much bigger brain capacity than the previously found Australopithecus boisei.

Living in Pittsburgh, the skull and crossbones previously used was not terribly helpful, because the Jolly Roger was the mascot for the local baseball team, the Pittsburgh Pirates.

However, observing that the splinter previously found in Morold's skull matches Tantris's sword, Isolde realises Tantris is in fact Tristan, and threatens to kill him as he sits in the bath.

However, a subadult specimen and closer analysis of additional Triceratops skulls ( as well as several previously overlooked skull differences ) led Nicholas R. Longrich and Daniel J.

Analysis of these remains and comparison with others from Texas supported this conclusion, and demonstrated that the more completely-known sauropods from the Twin Mountains Formation ( including a partial skull and fossil trackways ) previously named Paluxysaurus jonesi also belonged to Sauroposeidon.

The Diplodocus-like skull has demonstrated that titanosaur skulls vary more than was previously believed.

The specimen bore many similarities to the orangutan skull and strengthened the theory ( previously suggested by others ) that Sivapithecus was closely related to orangutans.

In 1975, James Hopson redescribed a fragmentary heterodontosaur skull ( UCL A100 ) found in South Africa that Thulborn had previously assigned to Lycorhinus angustidens.

In 1921, Henry Fairfield Osborn, President of the American Museum of Natural History, examined the Piltdown and Sheffield Park finds and declared that the jaw and skull belonged together " without question " and that the Sheffield Park fragments " were exactly those which we should have selected to confirm the comparison with the original type.

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.

The skull and other key bones for identifying the species were in poor condition, and it is still unknown as to what species or genus this Elasmosaur belonged.

Sir Arthur Keith, a fellow anatomist and anthropologist, suggested that the skull belonged to a young ape, most likely from an infant gorilla.

Broom classified it also as Plesianthropus transvaalensis, and it was dubbed Mrs. Ples by Broom's young coworkers ( though the skull is now thought to have belonged to a young male ).

They then notice an elderly Indian woman, who tells them that she too had a sister once, and gives Ginger and Brigitte each a necklace with a bird's skull that belonged to her and her sister.

While the first Pteranodon wing bones were collected by Marsh and Cope in the early 1870s, the first Pteranodon skull was found on May 2, 1876, along the Smoky Hill River in Wallace County ( now Logan County ), Kansas, USA, by Samuel Wendell Williston, a fossil collector working for Marsh.

After the skull was recovered from the house of a historical memorabilia collector, it spent time in D. C. Council member Jim Graham's office while he tried to get it returned to its rightful crypt.

Hirst had already sold a number of works to the influential collector Charles Saatchi, but Jopling enabled the artist to realise more ambitious projects including the sculpture ' The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living ' and more recently the diamond skull ' For the Love of God '.