I’m sure the basicranium is a mess where it’s glued to the wooden stand, but you could still use this thing to learn the bones, sutures, features, craniometric landmarks, and neurovascular foramina over most of the skull. Over on the ‘Human anatomy study materials‘ sidebar page, yo...
Most of the cranium is intact in a single piece, though some of the sutures are wobbly and will need stabilising with wood glue. The mandible is in two parts, but both seem in decent condition. Right at the bottom left of the photo is a shard of bone by the tip of the mandible: t...
The neurocranium is the upper and front parts of the skull that protect the brain and the rounded base of the skull that holds...
Neurodevelopmental functioning of infants with untreated single-suture craniosynostosis during early infancy. Purpose Single-suture craniosynostosis (SSC) is a congenital craniofacial disorder, in which premature fusion of one of the skull sutures restricts and di... ACD Costa,VA Anderson,R Savarirayan,...
* Hat tip to Jerry Harris, who alerted me that the term ‘sutures’ is reserved for skulls only, and that the joints between neural arches and centra are properly called synostoses. Thanks also to physical anthropologist Vicki Wedel, who confirmed this. ** Yes, I’m using the old Humbold...
Here’s a significant jump forward in time. By this point I’d degreased and whitened the skull by soaking it in dilute hydrogen peroxide (I use the cheap stuff from the dollar store down the street, and it works fine), applied glue to several of the skull sutures that were threatening...
If you look across the whole skeleton, the closures of different sutures–in the vertebrae, in the long bones, in the limb girdles, in the skull–are spread out through time. This is nice if you want to determine the age at which something–or more often,someone–died (forensic anthropolo...
It’s hard to tell in part, of course, because of the horny beak which obscures whatever sutures might be up there at the front of the skull. I don’t want to remove that, partly for fear of causing damage to the bones but mostly just because it’s nice to keep. What I’d not...
The idea that dinosaurs had unusual life histories is not new. The short, short version is that it is usually pretty straightforward to tell which mammals and birds are adults, because the major developmental milestones that mark adulthood – reproductive maturity, cessation of growth, macro-level...
I’m sure the basicranium is a mess where it’s glued to the wooden stand, but you could still use this thing to learn the bones, sutures, features, craniometric landmarks, and neurovascular foramina over most of the skull. Over on the ‘Human anatomy study materials‘ sidebar page, yo...