Sentences with phrase «endocranial casts»

It's the first known evidence of such a dinosaur brain — but now that they know to look for it, the researchers say, they might go back and look at other endocranial casts of dinosaurs to see whether they might contain traces of other such structures.

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.

These are three - dimensional models of chimpanzee and human skulls showing their endocranial casts (teal) and brains (purple).