The significance of the specimen remained the subject of controversy until it was exposed in 1953 as a forgery, consisting of the lower jawbone of an orangutan deliberately combined with the skull of a fully developed modern human.

If a bear had to be killed, a sacred ritual of Peijainen ( which some consider the source of the Odin and Wotan myths ) was held, and the bear's spirit in the form of its skull remained in a sacred clearing which was upkept, and people would bring expiatory and tributory gifts to it.

Finally, throughout geologic time, invertebrates have remained non-craniate creatures ; that is, they never developed a cranium, nerve-chord brain, skull, or hard protective braincase ( unlike many vertebrates ).

Only Jezebel's skull, feet, and hands remained.

The skull of Gastornis remained unknown except for nondescript fragments, and several bones assigned to it were those of other animals.

While Ramos remained with Betis for the 1994-1995 season, he never played a game in La Liga as he was recovering from a skull fracture suffered during the 1994 FIFA World Cup game with Brazil.

The boxer remained in critical conditions for some days, with a skull fracture that would condition his career in the following years.

Shooting himself twice in the head accomplished nothing more than paralyzing one side of his face ( one of the bullets remained forever lodged in his skull ) and putting him in a mental institution in Dole, Jura.

The wounds healed but the skull indentation remained.

Surrounded by the splintered bones of the skull was the very little that remained of the face.

The body of the servant was subsequently exhumed and the body taken to the manor house. In the process of time the skeleton has long since vanished, except for the skull where it has remained in the house for centuries.

What remained was the bulky Thing-style body, which was wrapped in a burlap sarong and topped with a modified skull mask and big blond wig.

He determined that the plant and animal fossils that had been discovered near the skull were indeed genuine, but the skull was too modern, and concluded that " to suppose that man could have remained unchanged ... for a million years, roughly speaking ... is to suppose a miracle.

He kept the skull of one of his victims, Anthony Sears, until he was caught.

After the Reformation the skull was taken to the exhibition rooms of king Frederik III in Copenhagen, where it was on exhibit along with the petrified embryo a woman had carried inside her for 28 years, as well as other monstrosities the king had collected — until it was transferred to Copenhagen's National museum.

She taunts him until he throws her skull against the wall, smashing it and giving his victim release from further torment.

It is like the difference between slamming someone into a wall headfirst ( fracturing their skull ) and shoulder-first ( bruising their flesh slightly ) is that the arm, being softer, has tens of times longer to slow its speed, yielding a little at a time, than the hard skull, which isn't in contact with the wall until it has to deal with extremely high pressures.

Aubert repeatedly ignored the angel's instruction, until Michael burned a hole in the bishop's skull with his finger.

Enraged, Krik stomps Johnny's skull until the wall monster breaks through the floor.

In about 1911, an adult male skull was found in the moss ; it was thought to belong to the Romano-British period – similar to the Lindow Man bog body – until radiocarbon dating revealed that it dated from 1, 320 – 970 BC.

He came close to victory several times until, supposedly blinded by the sunset behind Musashi, Musashi struck him on the skull with his oversized bokken ( wooden sword ), which was 110 centimeters long.

However he published no mention of the skull until the late 1940s, not long after a crystal skull was auctioned off by Sydney Burney at Sotheby's in 1943.

Mitchell-Hedges ' crystal skull was retained in the possession of his adopted daughter Anna until her death on 11 April 2007 at the age of 100, during which time she periodically exhibited it to the public, continuing to make claims for the skull's mysterious powers and origin.

The upper canines can grow backwards in a curve until they penetrate the skull of the male babirusa.

For hundreds of years the story of St. Magnus, part of the Orkneyinga saga, was considered just a legend until a skull with a large crack in it, such as it had been stricken by an axe, was found in the walls of St. Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall.

The Anglican Lichfield Cathedral, at the site of his burial, is dedicated to Chad, and St Mary, and still has a head chapel, where the skull of the saint was kept until it was lost during the Reformation.

The cervical segment, or C1, of the internal carotid extends from the carotid bifurcation until it enters the carotid canal in the skull anterior to the jugular foramen.

He played minor league hockey until a fractured skull resulting from a slash by Jean-Guy Talbot ended his playing aspirations.

The Chief claimed that he later found her skull and treated it with synthetic proteins until her malleable body was regrown from it.

Reports include those of two Noisy Miners repeatedly pecking a House Sparrow ( Passer domesticus ) at the base of its skull and killing it in six minutes ; one Noisy Miner grasping a Striated Pardalote ( Pardalotus striatus ) by the wing while another pecked it on the head until it died ; and a Sacred Kingfisher ( Todiramphus sanctus ) being chased and harassed for over five hours and then found dead with a fractured skull.

A year later a skull fracture and concussion forced him to retire, but not until after he became the first Ranger to record 300 wins.

" Don Zimmer, who was nearly killed by a beanball in 1953 and had four metal buttons surgically implanted in his skull, recounted, " It's not a case of being tougher than anybody else ... You never know how you're going to react until you come back and play again.

Aubert did not pay attention to this vision at first, until in exasperation Michael appeared to him again, this time driving his finger into Aubert's skull and ordering him to complete the task again.

He left school at the age of 15 in December 1956 ; two years later, in November 1958, he suffered a fractured skull and a broken arm and leg in a motorbike accident.

The monastery was once famous for holding a skull relic of Xuanzang who died in 664, however, the relic was presented to India in 1956 when it was taken to Nalanda-allegedly by the Dalai Lama-and presented to India.

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

According to this tradition, when Christ is crucified, his blood falls on Adam's skull, buried at the foot of the cross, and redeems him.

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!

An endocast or internal mold is formed when sediments or minerals fill the internal cavity of an organism, such as the inside of a bivalve or snail or the hollow of a skull.

Even when he is depicted as a half-clad anchorite, with cross, skull and Bible for the only furniture of his cell, the red hat or some other indication of his rank as cardinal is as a rule introduced somewhere in the picture.

The cause of death was a skull fracture suffered when he fell from his horse while returning from a visit to John and his brother George at school.

Cinthio describes each gruesome blow, and, when the lady is dead, Iago and Othello place her lifeless body upon her bed, smash her skull, and cause the cracked ceiling above the bed to collapse upon her, giving the impression its falling rafters caused her death.

Promoters in New York paid Teddy Hale $ 5, 000 when he won in 1896 and he won " like a ghost, his face as white as a corpse, his eyes no longer visible because they'd retreated into his skull ," as one report had it.

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.

Because the brain is well protected by the skull, the early detection of a brain tumor occurs only when diagnostic tools are directed at the intracranial cavity.

A penetrating head injury occurs when an object pierces the skull and breaches the dura mater.

Their first well-known find was in 1811, when Mary was 12 ; Joseph dug up a 4-foot ichthyosaur skull and a few months later, Mary found the rest of the skeleton.

2002 then saw Hird's worst injury, an horrific facial injury sustained in a match against when he collided with teammate Mark McVeigh's knee, breaking or fracturing all but a couple of the bones in his skull ; Hird was in hospital for a week and missed several weeks of the season.

The largest known skull ( specimen BYU 12183 ) is estimated to have been in length when complete, and could reach almost a third of the length of the entire animal.

He once worked as a janitor at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant and received a severe head wound from Mr. Burns when Moleman asked Burns for seventeen dollars for a push-broom rebristling ; Burns, high on ether, mistook him for the Lucky Charms leprechaun and went to his skull with a power drill.

He was so exceedingly terrified, that it is said that he wet himself when he saw Thor ..... But the hammer Mjölner hit Hrungner right in the head, and crushed his skull in small pieces.

A month later, Pipp received a skull fracture when he was hit by a practice pitch from Charlie Caldwell, an event that had also been mistakenly linked to his initial benching.

A plastic-enclosed coil of wire is held next to the skull and when activated, produces a magnetic field oriented orthogonally to the plane of the coil.

This was the time when " sciences " such as phrenology claimed to be able to correlate cultural and behavioral traits of different populations with their outward physical characteristics, such as the shape of the skull.

The city legend starts with the recovery of a human skull ( the word for head in Latin is caput ) when foundation trenches were being dug for the Temple of Jupiter at Tarquin's order.

His skull became the subject of dispute when in 1840 his lead coffin was accidentally re-opened by workmen.

If the skull bones are not completely ossified when the hydrocephalus occurs, the pressure may also severely enlarge the head.

Since the skull bones have not yet firmly joined together, bulging, firm anterior and posterior fontanelles may be present even when the patient is in an upright position.

With regard to the origin of the idea, Oken narrates in his Isis that, walking one autumn day in 1806 in the Harz forest, he stumbled on the blanched skull of a deer, picked up the partially dislocated bones, and contemplated them for a while, when it suddenly occurred to him, " It is a vertebral column!

The vertebral theory of the skull had practically disappeared from anatomical science when the labours of Cuvier drew to their close.