Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wolves' return. So the painstaking examination of the animal killed last month is beginning to resemble the autopsy of a slain President. Forensic tests to examine wear of the beast's paws and teeth support the notion that it is a wild wolf. Preliminary analysis of the skull is inconclusive. Now researchers are trying to match the animal's genetic material with that of known populations of wolves...
Unfortunately, no single test can rule out the presence of dog genes. For instance, one scientist studying the remains argues that skull analysis requires the examination of many skulls of the same age and sex; in the case of an endangered species like the wolf, it could take years to accumulate a big enough sample. Concludes John Varley, the chief of research at Yellowstone National Park: "The best we can hope for is 80% certainty, and we are going to have to make a decision based on that...
Students are required to split the skull in half, an act which adds to their queasiness, says Sherleen Huang. "That's where I really felt like we were messing up his body," she says...
...says Helmut Simon, the German tourist who spotted the Iceman on Sept. 19, 1991, while on an Alpine walking trip with his wife. On closer inspection, however, they realized that the head and shoulders protruding from the Similaun glacier were human, and seeing a hole in back of the skull, suspected foul play. Hurrying to a hikers' shelter to report their find, they set in motion a series of blunders that nearly deprived the world of a priceless treasure...
Restic (thoughtfully at first, then with increasing bitterness): "I don't know. I don't know." Then he put his hand on my head like he was palming a basketball and rocked my skull back and forth, saying, "You're the experts, you tell me what happened out there. You tell...