cranium

The bumps and contours of the cranium were once believed to reflect the intellectual power and moral strength of the mind inside.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

The final stage involved "attaching" the reconstructed face to the braincase to create a mostly complete cranium.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 16, 2025

The university removed that cranium from the reburial so it can be assessed for return through NAGPRA.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

If the device works as expected, it will answer longstanding questions about the impacts of microgravity inside the cranium.

From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2023

Once he got a fact, it stayed, but the hours it took to pass into his cranium were not to be believed.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

Beginning in the 1830s, physician and professor Samuel George Morton collected about 900 crania, and after his death the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia added hundreds more.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

On 3 February, the museum plans to lay the crania of 19 of the Black Philadelphians in the collection to rest in a historically Black cemetery.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 23, 2024

To construct the feeding behaviours and determine the relation between the mandible and trunk, the team examined the crania and lower jaws of the three groups, sourced from three different museums.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2023

“The placement and treatment of the crania are distinctly different from the burial tradition” in the hunter-gatherer graves located 330 feet to the north, Kjellström said.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2018

This will enable us to understand how the fossil crania of Denise and Engis agree so closely with existing forms, although they undoubtedly existed in company with large mammalia now extinct.

From Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays by Alfred Russel Wallace

Humans evolved wisdom teeth to better grind down hard foods like raw plants, tough meats and nuts, but as our diets became softer and our brains bigger, our species developed larger craniums and smaller jaws.

From Salon ● May 7, 2024

Through their analysis of bite forces and the stress all that gobbling put on tyrannosaur craniums, the researchers showed that tyrannosaurs steadily built up their bone-crunching powers over the eons.

From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2023

The vividly hued mixed-media craniums are grown-up 3D cartoons that suggest the visages of superheroes or supervillains.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2023

The Maori and Moriori skeletal remains, including skulls without mandibles, craniums, loose mandibles and maxilla fragments, were largely collected by Austrian taxidermist and grave robber Andreas Reischek from 1877 to 1889.

From Reuters ● Oct. 2, 2022

And the whole class leaped furiously to its feet, blotting out the entire picture with black shadows of craniums and starched pinafores.

From Your United States Impressions of a first visit by Arnold Bennett