The Discovery of a Bone in the Anterior Fontanelle of the Skull of the Sheep (Ovis aries)
Int. j. morphol; 41 (3), 2023
SUMMARY: A comparative study of the skull morphology was conducted using 270 prenatal and 750 postnatal skull samples from three breeds of sheep in Nigeria namely, Balami, Uda and Yankasa. A unique bone peculiar to the Yankasa breeds of sheep was found consistently at the centre of the anterior fontanell...