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10 unusual facts about Human skull


Aboriginal Tasmanian

Tasmanian Aboriginal skulls were particularly sought internationally for studies into craniofacial anthropometry.

Antoinette Frank

In November 1995, a month after she received her first death sentence, a dog led police to find a human skull with a bullet hole buried under Frank's house.

Duraiappa stadium mass grave

As the battered skins of six oil drums were pulled back to reveal a pit a few feet across, horrified villagers clutching the identity cards of missing sons and husbands came forward to witness the layers of skulls and broken vertebrae crushed into hardened clay 3 feet below the turf.

Flag of Nashville, Tennessee

The seal displays a Native American holding a skull standing by a tobacco plant, an eagle, and a badge-shaped shield decorated in a style similar to the American flag.

Great Sasuke

He is said to have an incredible tolerance for pain, mainly in reference to the injuries he has had including a cracked skull on two occasions.

Gummy Song Skull

This was a limited release contained on a USB keydrive and placed inside a brain-shaped gummy that was further encased in a gummy skull.

History of intersex surgery

Earlier correction reduced the social "differentness" of a child with a cleft lip, or club foot, or skull malformation, or could save the life of an infant with spina bifida.

Michael Morales

Morales then hit her head with a hammer, beating her into unconsciousness, and crushing the victim's skull.

Rod Ferrell

Before Richard had even awakened, Ferrell beat him multiple times with a crowbar, fracturing both his skull and ribs, almost instantly knocking him out, and killing him shortly thereafter.

Sympathetic trunk

The sympathetic trunks (sympathetic chain, gangliated cord) are a paired bundle of nerve fibers that run from the base of the skull to the coccyx.


Cephalhematoma

A cephalohaematoma (British English) or cephalohematoma (American English) is a hemorrhage of blood between the skull and the periosteum of a newborn baby secondary to rupture of blood vessels crossing the periosteum.

Frankfurt plane

The Frankfort plane (also called the auriculo-orbital plane) was established at the World Congress on Anthropology in Frankfurt, Germany in 1884, and decreed as the anatomical position of the human skull.

Homo floresiensis

Prior to Jacob's removal of the fossils, a CT scan was taken of the skull and a virtual endocast of the skull (i.e., a computer-generated model of the skull's interior) of H. floresiensis was produced and analyzed by Dean Falk et al. This team concluded that the brainpan was not that of a pygmy nor an individual with a malformed skull and brain.

Monster Face

The toy consisted of a skull like head with holes to which you could attach several accessories such as bugs, fangs, noses and blisters, to create a new monster based in altering the original face.

Pholcus phalangioides

The cellar spider (Pholcus phalangioides), also known as the skull spider due to its cephalothorax looking like a human skull, is a spider of the family Pholcidae.