The lieutenant's sparse brown hair was heavily pomaded, and as Killpath raked the comb through it, it stuck together in thatches so that it looked like umbrella ribs clinging to his pink skull.

The massive skull of Albertosaurus, perched on a short, S-shaped neck, was approximately 1 metre ( 3. 3 ft ) long in the largest adults.

The small skull cap evolved into a bigger true helmet, the bascinet, as it was lengthened downward to protect the back of the neck and the sides of the head.

His relics, now consisting of only his skull, are venerated in the Church of St. Titus, Heraklion, Crete to which it was returned in 1966 after being removed to Venice during the Turkish occupation.

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.

A species of Paranthropus, such as Paranthropus robustus, with its crested skull and bipedal gait, was suggested by primatologist John Napier and anthropologist Gordon Strasenburg as a possible candidate for Bigfoot's identity, despite the fact that fossils of Paranthropus are found only in Africa.

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.

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

Measuring about long by wide, the skull was lacking its lower jaw but possessed two sharp, prominent canines that suggested that it might have been a leopard.

The skull was sent to the Natural History Museum in London for verification.

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.

The back of the skull was cleanly cut off in a way that is commonly used to mount the head on a 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.

They also fought alongside Hannibal, killing ( in 216 BC ) the Roman general L. Postumius Albinus, whose skull was then turned into a sacrificial bowl.

In January 1846, a peculiar skull was taken from the banks of Murrumbidgee River near Balranald, New South Wales.

Initial reports suggested that it was the skull of something unknown to science.

At the same time, however, the so-called bunyip skull was put on display in the Australian Museum ( Sydney ) for two days.

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.

According to tradition, Jesus was crucified over the place where Adam's skull was buried.

Campbell was seriously hurt, suffering a fracture to his lower skull, and was by 1961 on the road to recovery and planning the rebuild of CN7.

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!

And in 2001 a team lead by Michel Brunet discovered the skull of Sahelanthropus tchadensis which was dated as, and which Brunet argued was a bipedal, and therefore a hominin.

He hints at having activated his latent psychic abilities through altering the shape of his skull in the manner of Incan tribes and / or trepanation, and his theories are mostly derived from the resultant divine inspiration.

Suffering from shell shock, Spencer is invalided out of the army after hammering nails into his own skull ( in his introduction to Newman's collection The Original Doctor Shade and Other Stories, Neil Gaiman claims that " Kim Newman was the original inspiration for Pinhead ").

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.

The synapsid / sauropsid division supplemented, but was never as popular during the 20th century as a Linneaean approach splitting the reptiles into four subclasses based on the number and position of temporal fenestrae, openings in the sides of the skull behind the eyes.

He again struck the receptionist above the left eye with the butt of his rifle, causing a second fracture of the skull before dragging her body behind a couch ; Townsley would later die from her injuries.

At that moment Mark rises up behind him and splits his skull.

Other elements of the skull, however, may be reduced ; there is little cheek region behind the enlarged orbits, and little, if any bone in between them.

They are easily separated from other amniotes by having a temporal fenestra, an opening low in the skull roof behind each eye, leaving a bony arch beneath each ; this accounts for their name.

Synapsids evolved a temporal fenestra behind each eye orbit on the lateral surface of the skull.

This valve usually sits outside the skull, but beneath the skin, somewhere behind the ear.

Its skull resembles that of polecats in its size, massiveness and the development of its ridges and depressions, though it is distinguished by the extreme degree of constriction behind the orbits where the width of the cranium is much less than that of the muzzle.

There are three main lines of amniotes, which may be distinguished by the structure of the skull and in particular the number of temporal fenestrae ( openings ) behind each eye.

It is embedded in the skull behind the ear.

In non-human vertebrates, the parietal bones typically form the rear or central part of the skull roof, lying behind the frontal bones.

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.

Other elements of the skull, however, may be reduced ; there is little cheek region behind the enlarged orbits, and little, if any bone in between them.

This classification supplemented, but was never as popular as, the classification of the reptiles ( according to Romer's classic Vertebrate Paleontology ) into four subclasses according to the positioning of temporal fenestrae, openings in the sides of the skull behind the eyes.

The cult had twin foci: his tomb, in the apse, directly behind the high altar of the cathedral ; and more particularly his skull, kept in a special Head Chapel, above the south aisle.

Sounds are transmitted via a receiver attached from the arm of the spectacles which are fitted firmly behind the boney portion of the skull at the back of the ear, ( mastoid process ) by means of pressure, applied on the arm of the spectacles.

A large polished aluminum suitcase containing a large sum of money, traveler's checks and jewels, which he had placed on the package shelf behind him flew forward and struck Mix in the back of the head, shattering his skull and breaking his neck.

In the paradigmatic formulations of Justinus Kerner, the shallow daylight " world of the rationalist, whose hard glass skull ( tabula vitrea )" keeps him isolated from intuitions of a higher world, stands against the profoundly meaningful nocturnal " world of the somnambules, who know from direct experience that behind the brutal realities of social and material existence there is a much larger, all-encompassing, and deeply meaningful life.

On the sides of the skull, slightly behind the perpendicular line.

Firmness is located on top of the skull, just behind the perpendicular line drawn from the aural conduct upwards.

The mastoid portion of the human temporal bone, which can be felt as a bump in the skull behind the pinna, also contains air, which is ventilated through the middle ear.

The cap badge for the Tanith is a wreath-surrounded skull with three daggers behind it ; each dagger representing a Tanith regiment.

On 6 September 2010 Karl Shuker announced that a hitherto-unknown photograph of Trunko had been discovered by German cryptozoologist Markus Hemmler on the website of the Margate Business Association, and Shuker recognised from this photo that Trunko had been nothing more than a globster, i. e. a massive, tough skin-sac of blubber containing collagen that is sometimes left behind when a whale dies and its skull and skeleton have separated from the skin and sunk to the sea bottom.