Amusingly, the researchers who discovered an essential protein for the fusing of
skull bones named it noggin.
Not exact matches
The skeleton of the fish,
named Materpiscis, or «mother fish,» contained the teeth, jaws,
skull bones, and body plates of a much smaller member of the same species, as well as an umbilical cord connecting the two.
The authors of this study that analyzed the dinosaur
skull and
bones, discovered in 2014 on a beach near Penarth, Wales, conclude it is a new species that they have
named Dracoraptor hanigani.
The
name, along with the reason, has dropped out of his head; but it feels as if, in exiting, it has removed a jagged splinter of
bone from his
skull.