Skull and Bones

In 1913 at a nearby site an ape's jaw with a canine tooth that was worn down like a human's. British paleontologist gad the idea that a creature that had a human cranium and an ape's jaw existed. In 1953 a Piltdown man was exposed as a forgery, the skull had in fact been modern and the teeth had been filed down. Charles Dawson was the archaeologist who brought in the first cranial fragments from Piltdown. The Piltdown forgery had so many scientist fooled, in this century anthropologists believed…

when there is an impact or sudden motion that brings the head to an abrupt stop, slamming the brain into the skull. This injury is known as coup-contrecoup. When the brain starts to bounce back and forth inside of the head then that part of the brain that hits the skull will be damaged, meaning the brain is injured on direct impact. When the brain bounces back to the opposite side of the skull then the opposite side of the brain is also injured. Coup-contrecoup injuries are comprised of damage…

An infant’s skull is composed of six cranial bones separated by strong fibrous joints called sutures. The coronal suture runs from one ear to the other ear and separates the frontal bone from the two parietal bones. The sagittal suture separates the two parietal bones. The lambdoidal suture separates the two parietal bones and the occipital bone. There is also the metopic suture that divides the two halves of the frontal bone in children. This suture usually disappears by the age of six.…

begin to lose other traits. Basically evolution is change. However, evolution is only seen as a reliable theory. Evidence that scientist have to prove evolution as a reliable theory are fossils and relative dating. In this lab report, I measured 11 skulls and based on the measurements, I will try to either prove if my hypothesis of the amount of organisms that bipedal is either correct or incorrect. Hypothesis: If over time the measurements decrease due to evolution…

synostosis, which results in a variable pattern of skull deformities. This paper reviews the spectrum of synostosis, including the involvement of the minor sutures. A case report of frontosphenoidal with squamous suture craniosynostosis is described and the merits of virtual surgical planning discussed. The sutures of the cranial vault are patent at birth. A thin layer of fibrous tissue connects the bones, which facilitates malleability of the skull through the birth canal, as well as rapid…

of a disease. A tackle that slams a player to the ground happens at least one hundred times during just one game. That is one hundred times where a player loses brain cells and greatens their risk of developing a brain degenerative disease. The bone jarring tackles cause for many psychological problems to occur. The psychological symptoms can range from feeling of hopelessness, thoughts of suicide, insomnia, depression, anger issues and the list goes on and on. So although not every former…

is a narrow channel that folds and closes during the third and fourth weeks of pregnancy to form the brain and spinal cord. Encephalocele is a sac-like protrusion or projection of the brain and the membranes that cover it through an opening in the skull. Encephalocele happens when the neural tube does not close completely during pregnancy. The neural tube is a hollow, embryonic structure that gradually develops into the central nervous system, comprising of the brain and spinal cord. This in the…

paleontologist. He describes his multiple experiences of planning, preparing, excavating, and analyzing not only the fossils found by his team, but also where and when in the rock these artifacts were found. His research and expenditures led to discoveries of bones and fossils that he would…

Over evolutionary time organisms have diversified beyond imaginable. The earth is full of life from the simplest, single celled organisms, to whales the size of school buses. Even though there is a sundry of species alive on the planet today, even more species have lived in the past. In comparing the flying fish and the jerboa, one can see the changes that organisms have made overtime to better their chance of survival in their environment. By studying comparative anatomy, one can see the way…

of drug categories. Our dispatcher received a call on. October 2nd, 2016 about a finding of bones inside the underpass near 6th and Jackson. When I arrived at the scene I saw bones and a huge hole, next to where, they were more than likely dug up. It looks like the bones have been there for quite a while. The man who found the body was a homeless man by the name of "B-Bop." We are guessing that the bones we found belonged to a victim of the drug ring that occurs around this area. We…