Sentences with phrase «as skull shape»

Genes linked to physical traits such as skull shape, small ears and short tails were also identified.

The team also identified genes associated with the mammoth body plan, such as skull shape, small ears and short tails.

Yep, that's because it's the same design as another skull shaped rock in the E3 demo.

Not exact matches

As the skull grows, the orthosis will require adjustment to cater for the change in shape of the cranium.

As a result of this lack of widespread information, many find out that their children have been affected only after a significant deformity in skull shape becomes visually apparent.

«As a dog's head or skull shape becomes flatter — more pug - like — the brain rotates forward and the smell centre of the brain drifts further down to the lowest position in the skull,» Valenzuela says.

Differences in age and sex, says Tattersall, can not account for the wide variation in features such as jaw and brow shape not only among Dmanisi skulls, but also when compared with H. erectus fossils from other sites.

Nevertheless, as Tobias says, it is still ``... a field beset with relatively few facts but many theories... The story of early hominid brains has to be read from carefully dated, well identified, fossilised calvariae, or from endocranial casts formed within them... Such materials confine the Hercule Poirot, who would read «the little grey cells» of fossil hominids, to statements about the size, shape and surface impressions... of ancient brains...» The other major limiting factor at the moment is the lack of suitable fossil skulls for such studies.

Most biologists, noting the shape of the fossa's skull and it's low - slung body, now classify it as a member of the mongoose family.

Now they report that two eggs contained skulls which Chiappe says «are in perfect shape, flattened and a little deformed, but pretty much as they were when the animals were alive.»

But other features, such as the shape of its skull and the shape and placement of its nostrils, hint that some aspects of the creature were indeed becoming more adapted to an aquatic lifestyle.

His team cataloged 1,549 items, including the shapes of teeth, bones and skulls as well as feather type and distribution.

In addition to measuring individual bones, the scientists used CT scanning to reconstruct the brain and view internal structures of the skull, as well as assessing the 3 - dimensional (3D) shape of the skull.

The way that skull shape changed as Neanderthals grew up suggests that they were just as smart as us, although it's still a contentious finding

In 2009 forensic anthropologist Ann Ross developed software called 3D - ID that compares three - dimensional coordinates on a skull to a database of physical characteristics, such as the shape of the forehead.

The researchers believe the unusual appearance of the skull is due to a combination of the small brain as it develops, but also a result of what at some point was likely a larger head size — due to ventriculomegaly — that then decompresses, and / or brain atrophy, giving the skull the collapsed shape.

It is similar in shape to recent African skulls as well as to European skulls from the Upper Paleolithic period, but different from most other early anatomically modern humans in the Levant.

The mammalian skull is a useful model for tackling these questions as it is a simple sheet - shaped tissue that expands, and like many tissues, does so anistropically.

A sample pulled from bone dust extracted from Cheddar Man's skull provided scientists with a full genome that enabled them to reconstruct the shape of Cheddar Man's face as well as discover the color of his skin, eyes, and hair.

1470's face is very robust, and as large as that of a modern Cro - Magnon skull, despite a much smaller brain size, and the cranium has a markedly different shape.

The pattern on their bodies is often described as «skull - shaped», which probably doesn't help their negative reputation.

Dr Jen Bright, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Sheffield and lead author of the study, said: «Our results show that in birds of prey such as eagles and falcons, the shapes of the skulls change in a predictable way as species increase or decrease in size.

The trapezius muscle, also known as the traps, is a kite shaped muscle that starts at the base of the skull and runs down the tips of the vertebrae.

Brothers Breeze (Ryan Kwanten) and Will Rutledge (Toby Kebbell) bicker as impending doom swirls ever closed, eventually closing in on them in a very literal rendering of pathetic fallacy, as the hurricane assumes the shape of a skull.

The performance is physical, the shriek of the supercharger drills into your skull, you on track you can clearly see the wheels hopping over kerbs, and you can feel the vibrations of the engine and fizzing rear wheels through the fixed plastic seat (the only thing we might change as it's hellishly uncomfortable for certain shapes and sizes).

She wore her hair in a half - inch Afro, her skull was perfectly shaped, she never wore make - up and dressed us both as plainly as possible.

In dogs, it is the opposite to the skull shape of long nosed breeds such as the Greyhound which is called dolichocephalia.

According the AKC Standard, The Boston Terrier's ears are small, carried erect, either natural or cropped to conform to the shape of the head and situated as near to the corners of the skull as possible.

The ears are small, carried erect, either natural or cropped to conform to the shape of the head and situated as near to the corners of the skull as possible.

As explained earlier in the article, the Techichi, ancestor of the Chihuahua, was a type of dogs and probably some of them had deer - shaped heads, while others had apple - shaped skulls.

A wedge - shape head, or a head long and narrow in muzzle and back skull is incorrect as are massive, cheeky heads.

Congenital hydrocephalus is a birth defect most often associated with a dome - shaped skull (sometimes referred to as «water head» or «apple head»), a large fontanel («soft spot») on top of the skull, and eyes that appear to gaze downward (called the «setting sun sign»).

Later studies on the skeleton's facial features and skull shape helped identify Naia as a paleo - American woman.

There are the usual, familiar six - sided dice, as well as more extravagant versions, including 144 - sided ones, and dice shaped like skulls, breasts, and stars.

While Remi's art has always been about creating dimension within the depths of a canvas or a wall, his new works have taken that idea in an exciting new direction, by transforming a three dimensional object such as a skull through the application of paint and by extracting complex shapes from the flat canvas into sculptural forms.

Typical «found objects» include natural materials like sand (see Sand Art), earth, stones, shells, curiously shaped pieces of wood, a human skull; or man - made items such as newspaper cuttings, photographs, pieces of glass, fragments of scrap metal, pieces of textile fabric, an unmade bed, a bicycle handlebars, and so on.