Huddled at the back of the cavernous skull, the brain of the South American giant rodent looks really, really small. By some estimates, it was around […] Skip to content ...

But when it comes to relative brain size, N. acreensis, represented in this study by a fossil skull unearthed in the 1990s in the Brazilian Amazon, seems to be an extreme.

An MRI revealed Allie had Type I Chiari malformation, which meant the back of her skull was too small for its contents. "Essentially, what happens, the cerebellum tonsils are pushing through the ...

Small Brain, Big Debate. Some Scientists Believe 18,000-Year-Old 'Hobbit' Is a New Species. ... They found the skull and part of the skeleton of a woman who lived 18,000 years ago.

Tucker Marr, 27, became part of a new development in neurosurgery, receiving a prosthetic piece of skull embedded with an acrylic window that would let doctors peer into his brain with ultrasound.

People usually think of the skull as packaging for the brain and researchers usually investigate them separately, but a team of researchers now thinks that developmentally and evolutionarily that ...

LB1's endocast indicates her brain fit snugly in her skull, and parts of her brain are highly convoluted, or intricately folded. By contrast, ... one that had a small brain and a small body.

The digital reconstruction of an extinct South American monkey’s fossilized skull, seen twirling in this video, offered a rare chance to study brain development in a 20-million-year-old animal.

Small Brain Of Dwarf 'Hobbit' Explained By Hippo's Island Life. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2009 / 05 / 090507185535.htm ...

Nor were they surprised she was an upright walker with a relatively small brain. She was the final pin in a 20th-century saga instigated by a tiny child’s skull most of us have never heard of.