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.

Sexual dimorphism is also apparent in the skull ; adult males have longer lower jaws than females, and have larger occipital crests.

Pocock distinguished A. f. styani from A. f. fulgens by its longer winter coat and more abundant blackness in the pelage, bigger skull, more strongly curved forehead, and more robust teeth.

The skull of the tiger is very similar to that of the lion, though the frontal region is usually not as depressed or flattened, with a slightly longer postorbital region.

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.

Males tend to have slightly thicker and longer limbs and digit bones ( phalanges ), while females tend to have narrower rib cages, smaller teeth, less angular mandibles, less pronounced cranial features such as the brow ridges and external occipital protuberance ( the small bump at the back of the skull ), and the carrying angle of the forearm is more pronounced in females.

" The new institute, as Eugen Fischer had announced proudly, would no longer occupy itself with mere skull measuring.

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.

The skull is longer and more narrow than a house cat's.

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.

When fully extended, the tongue can reach ; longer than the length of the skull.

The skull of a dusky dolphin has a longer and narrower rostrum than that of a hourglass dolphin or Peale's dolphin of similar age and size.

It is not clear how the MYH16 mutation relates to other changes to the jaw and skull in early human evolution ( for example, whether the MYH16 mutation happened first and led to other changes, or whether the MYH16 mutation happened after other changes made the MYH16 protein no longer necessary ).

The posterior belly, longer than the anterior belly, arises on the inferior surface of the skull, from the mastoid notch on the medial surface of the mastoid process of the temporal bone and a deep groove between the mastoid process and the styloid process called the digastric groove.

It has been suggested that the modern white rhino has a longer skull than Ceratotherium praecox to facilitate consumption of shorter grasses which resulted from the long term trend to drier conditions in Africa.

:* A. Mandible with coronoid bone ; nasals in sutural contact with frontals and prefrontals ; transverse bone short, not projecting much beyond cranium ; maxillary not half as long as mandible, which is not longer than skull ( to occiput ): Eryx.

::::* Supratemporal half as long as skull, projecting far beyond cranium ; mandible much longer than skull: Tropidonotus.

::::* Supratemporal not half as long as skull, projecting far beyond cranium ; mandible much longer than skull: Zamenis.

::::* Supratemporal not half as long as skull, projecting but slightly beyond cranium ; mandible much longer than skull: Coluber.

::::* Supratemporal not half as long as skull, not projecting beyond cranium ; mandible not longer than skull: Coronella, Contia.