Archaeologists in England are currently puzzling over a 2,000-year-old comb that was carved from the back of a human skull.

One of the cranial sutures — the wiggly lines on a skull where the individual bones fuse during life — was already closed, which does not normally happen until a person is older than 65.

A skull thought to belong to Cleopatra’s half-sister, Arsinoë IV, has actually turned out to be from an adolescent boy […] ...

Look for a second line at the front of the skull -- the coronal suture – which fully fuses ... the more pitted and craggy these bones will be. Forensic anthropologists will compare this against ...

Fibrous joints connecting the bones of the skull. These sutures allow growth during early development and gradually fuse as a person ages. A genetic disorder affecting the development of bones and ...

Sutures: The fibrous joints between the bones of the skull that allow for growth and development of the head.

Six1 role du ring s kull bone and suture development and disease: Analyzing the role of Six1 and Six1-ass ociated gen es in development of the mouse cranial bones and sutures; Determining the link ...

Look for a second line at the front of the skull -- the coronal suture – which fully fuses ... the more pitted and craggy these bones will be. Forensic anthropologists will compare this against ...