Study design: Report of a rare case of an elderly patient with late onset of Arnold Chiari malformation type I with associated syringomyelia that was successfully treated with foramen magnum ...

Controversy has centered on the association between a forward-shifted foramen magnum and bipedalism since 1925, when Raymond Dart discussed it in his description of "Taung child," a 2.8 ...

The foramen magnum, a large opening at the base of the skull, is critical in neurosciences, forensic anthropology and bioarchaeological research. Recent investigations into its morphometry have ...

March 17 (UPI) --New research by anthropologists at Stony Brook University and the University of Texas at Austin confirm the human skull and bipedalism co-evolved. Scientists have previously linked ...

Anthropologists confirm a direct link between upright two-legged (bipedal) walking and the position of the foramen magnum, a hole in the base of the skull that transmits the spinal cord. Anthropology ...

A 5-month-old boy was referred by a community pediatrician to clinical genetics at our facility for short stature and macrocephaly. His delivery had been normal, although his parents had noticed ...

The evolution of bipedalism in fossil humans can be detected using a key feature of the skull -- a claim that was previously contested but now has been further validated by researchers. The evolution ...