Word: skulls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...binges were limited to munching a few potato chips rather than pigging out on the usual half-bag. I didn't suffer any short-term memory loss, nor did I experience a Prozac-like up feeling. There were occasional headaches and a tingly, spaced-out sensation, as if my skull were tightening around my brain...
...Reeve's hip and squeezed it down to get a solid fit between the C1 and C2. Then he put in a titanium pin the shape of a tiny croquet wicket and fused the sublaminal wire with the first and second vertebrae. Finally, he drilled holes in Reeve's skull and passed the wires through to get a solid fusion...
...bears and humans. The word berserk, for example, means "dressed in a bearskin" and comes from the ancient Scandinavian warrior custom of running around and pretending to be one. Paleolithic Europeans may have worshipped bears; at least a cavern discovered last year in southern France featured a bear skull, "placed on a large rock set in the middle of a gallery against a backdrop of bear paintings." Besides, wouldn't it be kind of sad if the only vestige of Ursus horribilis were some fat little fellows named Teddy...
...murder, all right. not much doubt about that anymore. Not after the CT-scan boys at Johns Hopkins got through with the cadaver. Severe blow to the skull with a blunt instrument. Massive internal bleeding. Maybe drugged first. Victim was a female Native American. Probably 12 to 14 years old. Well dressed: had a fancy alpaca dress, striped, and a nice shawl. Silver pin. In pretty good health--"Best set of teeth I've seen in a long time," says Elliot Fishman, a Hopkins doc--until she turned up dead, of course. Been cold for a while when they found...
...surprises. The facial bones and teeth of the tyrannosaur-topping dinosaur, it turns out, are the same as those of a rare species, called Carcharodontosaurus saharicus ("shark-toothed reptile from the Sahara"), which were found in Egypt in the 1920s but destroyed during World War II. The new skull not only establishes the animal's size but also proves that the huge dinosaur had a comparably huge home range that spanned all of North Africa...