The mouth bar was adjusted to align the bregma and lambda points of the skull on the same plane.
Last month a slightly smaller skull of the same species, an Asian relative of T. rex, sold for $96,000, well below I.M. Chait's $140,000 to $180,000 estimate.
There's a reflex in every writer that trumps even the maternal instinct, a part of her that, even while her newborn suckles at her breast, is cold-eyed, choosing words to describe the pit-bull clamp of its gums, the crusted globe of its skull, with the same dispassion with which she might describe fellow passengers on a bus.
The two skulls "are the same animal, the same species," says Stephen Brusatte, a paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom.
The whiteness of the car body was as telling as the whiteness of an animal skull in a drought landscape; its windows were as deep and unreflecting as the eyesockets of the same skulls.
With the same orthopedic load, equivalent sutures of juvenile skulls experienced significantly higher bone strain than adult skulls, suggesting that the same mechanical force might have different biologic effects on immature and mature facial skeletons [18].
Other scientists, often referred to as "splitters" and including discoverers of the Georgian skulls, look at the same fossils and see distinct species in Africa and Asia, with the Dmanisi fossils much more closely related to its African roots.
The most useful and informative comparisons between skulls of different individuals are usually the comparisons made when both the skulls are in the same orientation.
In this study, swelling was observed in the fontanel areas of the median planes of the skull cap in two female piglets of the same litter.
Some years later, Thomas Carr, a paleontologist at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin, published his own study examining features of the same specimen's skull, teeth, and skeleton, along with comparisons with other juvenile specimens of T. rex.
