Borneo elephants: A high priority for conservation
...) based on anatomical differences, such as smaller skull size and tusk variations. This classification was later changed, partly because of the popular view that these animals had descended from imported domesticated elephants. Until now, there was no solid evidence to refute this belief and no reason to p...NIEHS study identifies gene for hydrocephalus in mice
...inal fluid from the brain cavity, which causes the skull to swell. About one child in 2,000 worldwide is afflicted by hydrocephalus. Identification of the mouse gene provides a means for researchers to study the possible genetic origins of this common birth defect in humans. The gene was discovered w...Earliest European modern humans found
... cave are, in fact, bear. We know that more of the skull is in the same place, but it was buried or not recognized at the time." The team plans to return to Romania next summer to continue the scientific analysis of the cave and its contents....Specialized brain helped ancient reptiles fly and hunt
...all species with a 3-foot wingspan and 4-inch-long skull that lived 150 million years ago in what is now Ge...ger creature with a 14-foot wingspan and a 20-inch skull that lived 115 million years ago in what is now Brazil. Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University a...Scientist challenges interpretation of new find, the oldest primate fossil ever discovered
CHICAGO--A skull and jawbones recently found in China is the oldest...sed on T. asiatica's small eye sockets relative to skull length, Ni and colleagues maintain that the small predator was diurnal (active during the day). Dr. ...Proven method of bone analysis may clarify human origins
...f a revolution, with the analysis of a part of the skull we were interested in for a variety of reasons," s...me been a gap between the anatomy you can see on a skull and what you can actually measure," Lockwood observes. "These methods -- 3D geometric morphometrics......ile optical imaging requires that a portion of the skull be removed to reveal the brain, limiting its use to animal subjects and patients undergoing special types of brain surgery. The advantage of in vivo optical imaging compared to microelectrode recording is "seeing the forest instead of the trees," ac...New research explores 'early bird' and 'night owl' sleep patterns
...m electroencephalograph electrodes attached to the skull and electromyograph electrodes in the neck muscles of the rat. The percent of slow wave sleep (percent of SWS; SWS bout length relative to rest time interval), percent of rest (total rest time relative to interval time) and fragmentation of rest (Fr...Fat cells heal skull defects in mice, Stanford research shows
... Certain types of cells from fat tissue can repair skull defects in mice, say researchers at Stanford Unive...ells and bone cells, both of which can also repair skull damage, grow very slowly outside of the body. Longaker and his colleagues have spent several years i...Two dinosaurs from Africa give clues to continents' split
The fossil skull of a wrinkle-faced, meat-eating dinosaur whose cou...pahic Explorer-in-Residence, has named the ancient skull Rugops primus, meaning "first wrinkle face." Measuring about 30 feet long in life, the animal had a ...Computer imaging of Archeopteryx skull suggests this dinosaur-bird link could fly
...anages the UTCT facility, took 1,300 images of the skull fragment that once held the creature's brain, eyes... modeling allowed the scientists to reposition the skull bones next to each other as they likely occurred in life. The repositioning suggested that the creat...South Dakota Tech grad student finds rare whale
...e 13-foot whale, photographed it and collected its skull for identification by Dr. James Mead at The Smiths...ng female. The Smithsonian will retain the whale's skull for confirmation and to serve as a voucher specimen for this rare species' distribution. Almost not......ent," after he discovered the 23.5-centimeter-long skull (about 9 inches) in autumn of 2002 in the Guanling...vince. Three fang teeth in the upper jaw from this skull survived: front to back, they measured 1.5 centimeters, 2.8 centimeters and 2.3 centimeters in lengt......saur (duckbill) dinosaur that includes some of the skull and large areas of very well-preserved skin impres...splayed at the museum for the public to enjoy (the skull is already on display at the Utah Museum of Natural History). WHERE: Northeast of Henrieville, ...