A comparative analysis involving over 400 ancient skulls found across the Americas, including Tulum, revealed a “mesocephalic” skull pattern indicative of a round head. This stands in contrast ...

The most wolf-like dogs, such as Siberian Huskies, have dolichocephalic skulls, which dedicates the largest proportion of the skull to the nasal cavity for smelling and hunting. Mesocephalic ...

The mesocephalic dogs fall in between (index values ... course of domestication and the genetic selection for a short-faced skull shape. However, the differences might also be due more to ...

Dogs were classified according to the length and width of their skull, and separated into three categories: Brachycephalic (short-nosed), mesocephalic (medium-nosed) and dolichocephalic (long-nosed).