An analysis of two theropod dinosaur fossils has shown that they had a type of carpal bone (pisiform) in their wrists—a bone ...

If you regularly experience headaches, dizziness, balance problems and blurred vision, our Neanderthal cousins could be to ...

The skull of a 5-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago has similarities with modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, ...

New research suggests that modern conditions may trace back to Neanderthal skull traits we share with our extinct cousins.

CASE REPORT During routine osteology teaching of the undergraduate medical students in the department of anatomy, we detected unusual occipital condyles bilaterally in an occipital bone of one ...

MATERIAL AND METHODS Ten uniformly sized skulls of adult peccaries (Tayassu tajacu, Linnaeus, 1758) were used. The anatomical pieces comprise the bone collection of the Animal Anatomy Laboratory of ...

Four new skulls were found in the cave, along with three new mandibles. With these new pieces from the Cueva Macho system, as well as an adult mandible found in a similar cave called Padre Nuestro, ...

Even if the occipital lobe is damaged, other regions of the brain may be able to compensate and take over some of its functions. Complete damage to the primary visual cortex can cause cortical ...

It is located at the back of the skull, and its function is to connect the occipital bone with the two parietal bones. It is continuous with the occipitomastoid suture, which connects the occipital ...

Our embryological perspective on the venous anatomy derives principally from early work of Dorcas Padget. 1 Key contributions were made by Yun Peng Huang, 2 3 Raybaud, Lasjaunias, Berenstein, and Ter ...