The skull has a highly developed zygomatic arch just behind the maxilla ( common to all mammals and their cynodont forebears ), and they have ossified external auditory bullae.

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.

Anatomically the evolution of bipedalism has been accompanied by a large number of skeletal changes, not just to the legs and pelvis, but also to the vertebral column, feet and ankles, and skull.

Also, in the popular video game Morrowind, its expansion Bloodmoon has a plot enemy known as Hircine, the Daedric god of the Hunt, who appears as a horned man with the face of a deer skull.

Evidence of trepanation, the surgical practice of either drilling or scraping a hole into the skull with the purpose of curing headaches or mental disorders or relieving cranial pressure, being performed on patients dates back to Neolithic times and has been found in various cultures throughout the world.

Pteranodon was notable for its skull crest, though the function of this crest has been a subject of debate.

Ailurus fulgens styani has been described by Thomas in 1902 based on one skull from a specimen collected in Szechwan.

The skull of a lion has broader nasal openings.

A partial adult skull from the Bayan Mandahu Formation has been assigned to a distinct species, Velociraptor osmolskae.

Grevy's zebra also has a donkey-like skull.

It might seem strange that despite having a mass in his skull exercising pressure on the brain the patient feels no pain, but as anyone who has suffered a concussion can attest, pain is felt on the outside of the skull and not in the brain itself.

Its skull is frog-like, being broad with large eye sockets, but the fossil has features diverging from modern frogs.

There is evidence that trepanning ( or trephining ) — the practice of drilling holes in the skull — has been in widespread, if infrequent, use since 5000 BC.

Compared to other members of the Felidae family, the leopard has relatively short legs and a long body with a large skull.

The Skull and crossbones ( poison ) | skull and crossbones has long been a standard symbol for poison.

This narwhal skull has double tusk s, a rare trait in narwhals.

The sturdy nature of the animal's skull has ensured that many examples have been preserved as fossils, allowing variations between species and individuals to be studied.

In these cases, the stapes either is also missing or, in the absence of an eardrum, connects to the quadrate bone in the skull, although, it is presumed, it still has some ability to transmit vibrations to the inner ear.

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.

Anapsid skull of Caretta caretta ( Loggerhead sea turtle ), a TestudineWhile " anapsid reptiles " or " anapsida " were traditionally spoken of as if they were a monophyletic group, it has been suggested that several groups of reptiles that had anapsid skulls may be only distantly related.

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

Roanoke Virginia July 4, 1910-One white man Joe Chockely has a bullet wound in his skull and probably fatally wounded is a net result of clashes here tonight following the announcement that Jack Johnson defeated Jeffries.

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 '.

He has a white, frequently skull-like face ( or actually has a skull for a face ) and speaks in a nasal voice.

Their lower jaws are articulated to the upper by means of transverse condyles firmly locked into long cavities of the skull, so dislocation of the jaw is all but impossible.

Large holes and cavities in the skull called adductor chambers and temporal openings would have provided room for large jaw-closing muscles.

** These are two irregular cavities, which extend backward, upward, and lateralward for a variable distance between the two tables of the skull ; they are separated from one another by a thin bony septum, which often deviates to one or other side, with the result that the sinuses are rarely symmetrical.

After ten visits to the site, Chatters had managed to collect 350 bones and pieces of bone, which with the skull completed almost an entire skeleton.

This feeding strategy is supported by many of their defining characteristics, such as: a light, tiny skull on the end of a long neck ( with ten or more elongated cervical vertebrae ) and a counterbalancing long tail ( with one to three extra sacral vertebrae ).

Tongdosa is reputeded to house several relics of the Sakyamuni Buddha himself, including a robe, a begging bowl, and a bone from his skull, all relics that Jajang brought back from the travels to China he undertook in 636 to study with ten other monks there.

He almost does, before Barda teleported him to a random location, that being ten feet behind Guy Gardner's skull.

This gallery also features some of the mightiest giants ever to walk the earth: the world ’ s largest Apatosaurus ; Saurophaganax, Oklahoma ’ s fierce Jurassic predator ; and Pentaceratops, whose ten and a half foot skull is the largest in the world.

Lindow Man's official name is Lindow II, as there are other finds from the area: Lindow I ( Lindow Woman ) refers to a human skull, Lindow III to a " fragmented headless body ", and Lindow IV to the upper thigh of an adult male, possibly that of Lindow Man.

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.

Because fossils identifiable as P. sternbergi are found exclusively in the lower layers of the Niobrara Formation, and P. longiceps fossils exclusively in the upper layers, a fossil lacking the skull can be identified based on its position in the geologic column ( though for many early fossil finds, precise data about its location was not recorded, rendering many fossils unidentifiable ).

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.

The skull, which grew up to long, was uniquely up-curved, concave on the upper surface and convex on the lower.

Milland had a tattoo on his upper right arm of a skull with a snake curled up on top of it with the tail of the snake sticking out through one of the eyes.

It extends from the base of the skull to the upper surface of the soft palate.

While other groups of fish, such as cichlids, also possess pharyngeal teeth, the cypriniformes ' teeth grind against a chewing pad on the base of the skull, instead of an upper pharyngeal jaw.

Some species have modified joints between bones in the skull and upper jaw, as well as muscles which contract to absorb the shock of the hammering.

Skeletal dysplasia is usually suspected because of obvious physical features ( e. g., unusual configuration of face or shape of skull ), because of an obviously affected parent, or because body measurements ( arm span, upper to lower segment ratio ) indicate disproportion.

In humans, the anatomical position of the skull has been agreed by international convention to be the Frankfurt plane, a position in which the lower margins of the orbits, the orbitales, and the upper margins of the ear canals, the poria, all lie in the same horizontal plane.

Unique skull features included the rough outer surface of the maxilla ( upper jaw bone ) and the pronounced crests around the eyes on the lacrimal, postorbital, and jugal bones.

The items being made more biofedlic were the pelvis and hip, the headskin and skull, the shoulder element, and the upper and lower abdomen.

The upper prong of this bone is embedded into the forehead, while the two lower prongs attach to the sides of the skull.

At the base of the upper mandible a thin sheet of nasal bones is attached to the skull at the nasofrontal hinge, which gives mobility to the upper mandible allowing it to move upwards and downwards.

The name is derived from the two bones which form the joint: the upper temporal bone which is part of the cranium ( skull ), and the lower jaw bone called the mandible.

Like all birds, the bills of sandpipers are capable of cranial kinesis, literally being able to move the bones of the skull ( other than the obvious movement of the lower jaw ) and specifically bending the upper jaw without opening the entire jaw, an act known as rhynchokinesis.

In affected individuals, the back portion of the brain is displaced from the back of the skull down into the upper neck.

The skull was structured in such a way that as it closed, the bones holding the teeth in the upper jaw would bow out.

An infant with hydranencephaly may appear normal at birth or may have some distortion of the skull and upper facial features due to fluid pressure inside the skull.

Gray described the genus Neofelis as having an elongate skull, a broad and rather produced face on the same plane as the forehead, a large and elongate nasal, a moderate orbit, a truncated lower jaw and very long conical upper and lower canine teeth with a sharp cutting hinder edge.

This skull most nearly resembles that of the fossil Felis smilodon, with a very much elongated upper canine.