COOLSKULLS
HERES A BUNCH OF COOL PAGES RELATED TO SKULLS
SKULS ARE SO COOLAND EPIC AND GOOD. K
3D SKULL SCANS
rotate these puppies right in your browser! courtesy of CARAS and the california academy of sciences!
UNIQUE SKULLS
elephant skulls. The huge nose cavity makes it easy to believe claims that Greeks based the cyclops off of their skulls, but we have no proof of that and its pretty much just conjecture. There's an interesting article here talking about more details
owl skull
Some owls actually have such asymmetrical ears that it presents in their skulls as well. It is present in both Boreal Owls and Northern Saw-whet Owls (both are in the genus Aegolius.), and Northern Saw-whet Owls have one ear higher than the other. The ear canals face different directions, This ear structure helps them receive sounds in different directions.
I've overlaid an illustration of a Boreal Owl Skull onto a Boreal Owl
Much thanks to the Internation Owl Center for their informative posts, including a post about owl ears where they dissect different species! That blog post can be found here
tarsier skull. look at them peepers! wow!
Just for a better frame of reference, here is a Senegal Bush Baby compated to a Tarsier
Senegal Bush Baby
Tarsier
The skull side by side is from this Specimen Blog, but a fair warning, there is a preserved Tarsier on that page
gila monsters. look at those head bumps..
pugs. now thats just sad
