It’s impossible to overstate the importance of our brain. The organ, housed inside the skull and protected by a bony covering called the cranium, controls thought, memory, emotion, vision, and ...

Skull Anatomy Neurocranium: The neurocranium is the portion of the skull that covers the brain. This is made up of bony plates with juncture points known as sutures.

A scan of the skull of a 319-million-year-old fossilized fish has led to the discovery of the oldest example of a well-preserved vertebrate brain, shining a new light on the early evolution of ...

Fish Evolution Secrets Unveiled from Brain Fossil. The skull was from a Coccocephalus wildi, a small ray-finned fish that was present more than 319 million years ago.

Without MN1, brain segmentation is impaired, cranial nerves form abnormally, and bones in the skull develop incorrectly—mirroring defects seen in human syndromes like cleft palate, skull deformities ...

And last week in the journal PLOS ONE, a team of historians announced evidence of a specific type of brain surgery, known as angular notched trephination, performed on a man who lived in Israel ...

Brain, spine, and skull base tumors are tumors that develop inside the body's central nervous system. These include growths in the brain, spinal cord, and the tissues that line them. These tumors can ...

The Navaornis brain - measuring about four-tenths of an inch (10 mm) across - was smaller, relative to skull size, than in modern birds, but larger and more complex than in Archaeopteryx.

03.06.2025 10:28 Revealing the link between the brain and skull co-evolution and co-development. Michael Hesse Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionsbiologie. A new ...

The Navaornis brain - measuring about four-tenths of an inch (10 mm) across - was smaller, relative to skull size, than in modern birds, but larger and more complex than in Archaeopteryx.