How nature designs skulls to take hard hits

Updated: 2012-10-14 07:49

By Simon Winchester(The New York Times)

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 How nature designs skulls to take hard hits

Among the thousands of skulls acquired by Alan Dudley are, clockwise from top left, those of an armadillo lizard, found in southern Africa; a walrus; a Sulawesi wild pig, native to Indonesia; and a saber-toothed cat. Photographs by Nick Mann

How nature designs skulls to take hard hits

How nature designs skulls to take hard hits

How nature designs skulls to take hard hits

The New York Times

(China Daily 10/14/2012 page11)