How to Use braincase in a Sentence

braincase

noun

• This would have allowed them to evolve a giant set of jaws without having a huge braincase.
  — Michael B. Habib, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2019
• The results suggest that Denisovans should have features such as a low braincase, a wide pelvis and large joint surfaces and ribcage.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian, 20 Sep. 2019
• The braincase also revealed the shortest ever cochlea found in a dinosaur.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Jan. 2022
• In the lab, the researchers imaged the braincase—still embedded in rock—with a micro-CT scanner, which beamed x-rays at the fossil in thin slices.
  — Bytess Joosse, science.org, 27 Sep. 2022
• To reconstruct the brains of ancient birds, researchers need fossils that preserve the hollow space where a brain would sit: the braincase.
  — Bytess Joosse, science.org, 27 Sep. 2022
• This could mean that the dinosaur's brain filled its braincase, which in turn could mean that the dinosaur — and perhaps other cows of the Cretaceous — was smarter than a box of rocks.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2016
• The Bexhill brain, however, was well-preserved enough to see that part of the tissue was directly against the braincase.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2016
• What makes the skull so fascinating to researchers is its braincase.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 9 Jan. 2019
• The scanning focused upon Little Foot’s cranial vault - the upper part of her braincase — and her lower jaw, or mandible.
  — NBC News, 2 Mar. 2021
• While the brain tissue of a dinosaur was too fragile to preserve, the structure of its braincase can reveal aspects of a dinosaur's lifestyle.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Jan. 2022
• Chief among the archaic features of the Irhoud hominins is the low and elongated braincase, far from the rounded shape that’s a hallmark of modern H. sapiens.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2020
• The braincases on these animals were not terribly large, though.
  — Michael B. Habib, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2019
• The fossil shows a creature with a projecting face, large canine teeth, flaring cheekbones, a crest atop its head that anchored strong jaw muscles, and a long, narrow braincase that held a brain the size of a chimpanzee’s.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 7 Dec. 2019
• In particular, the inner ear and braincase anatomy of lagerpetids hinted at adaptations that have been linked to the pterosaurs’ development of flight.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Dec. 2020
• Rarely preserved in ichthyosaurs, the braincase allows for scientists to better understand how the animals functioned.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 9 Jan. 2019
• The birds’ distinctive drumming and drilling had led researchers to hypothesize that the bone between woodpeckers’ beak and braincase must absorb shocks to protect their brain from concussions.
  — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 14 July 2022
• Although the stargazer fossil was not a new find, the authors more recently were able to use improved technology to peer inside both the braincase and the fossilized pellets without destroying either.
  — New York Times, 4 Feb. 2022
• Researchers found that over winter the braincases of the animals shrunk by an average of 15 percent in anticipation of winter, then rebounded almost, but not quite, to its former size in spring.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 25 Oct. 2017
• The protruding balconies are eyes, above which looms an oversize braincase of office space intended for Communist Party functionaries who would guide the economy.
  — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2021
• Given the Jebel Irhoud fossils’ modern faces and primitive braincases, Hublin and his team suggest that the features associated with modern humans probably didn’t evolve all at once.
  — National Geographic, 7 June 2017
• Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, the scientists describe using a spectroscopic device to confirm the calcium and phosphate signatures of coprolites — fossilized feces — in the fish’s braincase.
  — New York Times, 4 Feb. 2022

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