braincase

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

From Science Daily • Dec. 16, 2025

As the researchers write at one point, despite losing part of the palate and braincase, "the remainder of the skull is well-preserved, even showing a full arrangement of palpebral ossicles in place."

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2024

Homo heidelbergensis possessed a large browridge and a bigger braincase and flatter face than earlier hominins - species on the human evolutionary lineage.

From Reuters • Sep. 20, 2023

In 1996, in a 15-million-year-old rock formation in China’s far northwest, paleontologists unearthed an unusual fossil with a braincase and some vertebrae.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 1, 2022

Palmer bit on his lip and screamed inside his head, bashed chairs and flung himself against the walls of his braincase: Stop!

From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli