It took about a half-hour for Mrs. Baisch to help us find a vein of bone fragments just beneath the soil, and we quickly learned to spot the yellow finish and porous texture of bones.
The shape and texture of the bone growth is indicative of a major injury occurring to the hadrosaur and the obvious and entirely reasonable interpretation for this is that a bite from a tyrannosaur left the tooth in there.
Since lacunarity measures gap size and is not predicated on fractality, it may be particularly useful for characterizing the texture of trabecular bone.
The texture of the bone was wrong.
The authors suggested that the ontogenetic changes include: the skull becomes deeper, the orbit becomes smaller, the sutures among the bones become more complex, and the texture of lateral bones increase18.
Abelisaurid skulls were also strengthened in many areas by bone mineralized out of the skin, creating the characteristic rough texture of the bones.
He said that the size and texture of the bones gave an indication of the type of muscles the hominid would have had.
Within the first decades after Triceratops was described, various skulls were collected, which varied to a lesser or greater degree from the original Triceratops, named T. horridus by Marsh (from the Latin horridus; "rough, rugose", suggesting the roughened texture of those bones belonging to the type specimen, later identified as an aged individual).
X-ray studies showed diffuse thick dense cranial bones, thick calvarium, narrow skull base foramina, normal size and shape of sella turcica, hypoplastic maxilla, protruded mandible, diffuse sclerotic texture of long bones with medullary cavity expansion of metacarpals, and metatarsals and phalanges of hands and feet.
But then you also realize that the texture of a fossil bone is quite distinct from rocks.
