This skull is from an archeological collection, from Aisne (France). (Image via Wikimedia Commons user Vassil, CC0 1.0 public domain.) The presence of the metopic suture is not pathological or ...

The metopic suture divides the frontal skull bone in half from birth. It runs from the front (anterior) fontanelle at the top of the head, through the forehead, to the top of the nose.

The frontal bone forms the forehead and helps to support and protect the eyes. Viscerocranium: ... Craniosynostosis is a condition where the sutures of the skull close too soon.

As the two parts of the frontal bone fuse into one bone, the metopic suture disappears. In chimpanzees, this usually occurs in utero, before a chimp is born. In humans, this doesn’t happen until ...

The frontal bone's function is to support the front and back of the skull and protect the brain, eyes, and nasal passages. In infancy, the frontal bone is connected by a frontal suture, a ...

The diploic veins run inside the bones of the skull and leave channels that can be studied in osteological collections, in other words, in historical populations and fossil individuals. A study ...

This is only possible because all the cranial sutures are still wide open. After birth, the human brain grows extremely quickly, especially the large frontal lobes.