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Recent Examples of cranium
Then, the snakes swallow the prey whole, sometimes downing shockingly large animals thanks to the stretchy connective tissue between their cranium and lower jaw.
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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
Others, like a relatively flat face, set beneath the cranium instead of sticking out in front of it, look more like us.
—ArsTechnica, 18 June 2025
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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
Others, like a relatively flat face, set beneath the cranium instead of sticking out in front of it, look more like us.
—ArsTechnica, 18 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cranium
skull
Noun
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Latvian workers harvested rock from the small hill along the lake, eventually discovering a human skull amongst the rubble in 1964.—
Sarah Durn,
Popular Science,
11 Sep. 2025
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The doctors have to remove a small piece of his skull to release the pressure in his brain.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Cranium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cranium. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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