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Recent Examples of cranium
Eventually, the villager spotted something unexpected—the nearly complete cranium of an unknown, ancient hominin protruding from a small chamber’s interior wall.
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Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 20 Aug. 2025
Then, the snakes swallow the prey whole, sometimes downing shockingly large animals thanks to the stretchy connective tissue between their cranium and lower jaw.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2025
The man kept the Harbin cranium well hidden as he was instructed to hide it from the Japanese army.
—Nick Butler, FOXNews.com, 21 June 2025
There were also three unique variants of amino acids present on the cranium — amino acids that were also found on Denisova 3, a finger bone recovered from Denisova Cave in 2008.
—Stephanie Edwards, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2025
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Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 20 Aug. 2025
Then, the snakes swallow the prey whole, sometimes downing shockingly large animals thanks to the stretchy connective tissue between their cranium and lower jaw.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2025
The man kept the Harbin cranium well hidden as he was instructed to hide it from the Japanese army.
—Nick Butler, FOXNews.com, 21 June 2025
There were also three unique variants of amino acids present on the cranium — amino acids that were also found on Denisova 3, a finger bone recovered from Denisova Cave in 2008.
—Stephanie Edwards, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cranium
skull
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The infant was taken to a hospital with multiple brain bleeds, skull and neck fractures, and other injuries, prosecutors said, according to the Columbus Dispatch.—
Jennifer Rodriguez,
Kansas City Star,
25 Sep. 2025
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Both of the Yunxian skulls were deformed from millennia spent underground, but the second, known as Yunxian 2, was better preserved.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Cranium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cranium. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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