Sentence examples for small cranium from inspiring English sources

The species has a notably small cranium and rotund body shape, with males potentially reaching over 12 kgs and females, 10 kg.

"It was a small cranium laying upside-down with a perfect set of teeth and dark eye sockets looking back at us," recalled diver Alberto Nava of Bay Area Underwater Explorers, a nonprofit conservation organization based in Berkeley.

Structural malformations in the acardiac twin included a spectrum of anomalies that resembled HPE (Cohen, 2006): cyclopia, aprosencephaly, cystic hygroma, hypoplastic mandible and small cranium.

The small body and small craniums, the upper limbs, elbows and shoulders were more like the earliest habilis specimens.

The smaller cranium of P. kirkii in contrast to the mainland colobus monkey, is consistent with Foster's rule (also known as the island rule) in which the original (larger) animal becomes smaller over time when there is limited resources.

One interpretation assigns specimens with smaller craniums to a gracile species of Australopithecus (that is, one that is smaller, more slender, and characterized by molars and incisors of similar size).

Early proboscideans developed longer mandibles and smaller craniums, while more advanced ones developed shorter mandibles, which shifted the head's centre of gravity.

The smaller composite cranium, DH3 was mirrored in GeoMagic Studio 14.0, and merged with the original scan as outlined above.

The volume of the smaller composite cranium (DH3 and DH4) indicates a cranial capacity of approximately 465 cm.

In order to create a closed endocranial surface for a volume estimate, the frontal region from the smaller composite cranium was scaled by 5%, and then registered (aligned) and merged to the model of the larger composite cranium.

As with the smaller composite cranium, the endocranial surface was then selected and converted to a new object, and the remaining holes filled based on the curvature of the surface.