Word: skulled
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...death, however, this creature has just sent shock waves through the world of science. After eight grueling years of hunting in the hot, wind-scoured desert of central Africa, an international team of researchers has uncovered one of the most sensational fossil finds in living memory: the well-preserved skull of a chimp-size animal, probably a male, that doesn't fit any known species. According to paleontologist Michel Brunet of the University of Poitiers in France, whose team reported the find in Nature last week, there is no way it could have been an ape of any kind...
...party with Kemal Dervis, the Economy Minister. Dervis, however, did not confirm this. He submitted his resignation from the government, but President Ahmet Necdet Sezer persuaded him to withdraw his letter. CHAD Oldest Humanoid A French-led research team announced the discovery of the oldest human-like fossil. The skull is from a creature (nicknamed Touma?) that lived 6 to 7 million years ago - 3 million years older than any other known humanoid fossil. The Mission Pal?oanthropologique Franco-Tchadienne found only a cranium and lower jaw, so it's not known whether Touma? walked upright - or how the discovery fits...
...full advantage of this. People grow and shrink, or occasionally appear as animals. Backgrounds become patterns that reflect the mood of the scene rather than the location. One remarkable panel shows Jean-Christofe's head surrounded by a knot of tubes and two tiny doctors plugging them into his skull. Demons, monsters and ghosts become an integral part of the narrative. Jean-Christofe often has a snake-like creature running around and through his body which twists him up in its coils during his fits. Towards the end, in a fantastic convergence of reality and metaphor, these ghosts become real...
...other bodies have been burning since dawn. The funeral pyres, once piled more than a meter high, are now nothing but smoldering heaps of ash and fragmented bone. A blackened skull is all that remains of one; on the other a heat-shriveled thigh juts out, still attached to a cracked pelvis bone. Curiously, there is no odor of burnt flesh or hair. The bodies, in preparation for burning, have been dipped in the Ganges. "The holy river purifies all beings," says Papu, spitting betel juice from between blackened teeth. "That is why there is no odor...
...afraid of nobody, in the ring or out of the ring, if they got a gun or a knife. And I'll show him that, too," Tyson told reporters here the other day. "I'm just ready to get it on - and crush this guy's skull...