Dragon skull head trauma

[rolypoly]

The log record mentions some obvious head trauma to the sea dragon skull, but I don't really see any. I mean sure, part of the skull is missing towards the back (as is the rest of the skeleton, really), but nothing on the intact skull would indicate a hole through it the way the log implies...

[IFIYGD]

The head trauma is a lie.

So is the cake.

[Zemecon]

Blunt force trauma doesn't leave a hole. It leaves a fracture. And blunt force trauma straight-on would leave a different type of fracture than blunt-force trauma from an angle would. We shouldn't be looking for a hole or parts of the skull that we think should have gone missing. We should be looking for fracture lines that meet at a point somewhere at the top pf the skull. And since this is straight-on blunt force trauma, its radius should be equal length all around.
EDIT: And and sometimes these fractures can be hard to spot, especially when the skull is aged, because things happen to the surface of bones after death that distorts them.

[Kirb Your Enthusiasm]

That topic title makes me want a bizarro CSI-style game based around investigating murders of and by creatures from the Fantasy genre.

And no, The Wolf Among Us doesn't come close to counting.

[Zemecon]

http://intranet.tdmu.edu.ua/data/kafedra/internal/patologanatom/classes_stud/en/med/lik/ptn/Forensic%20medicine/4/Forensic%20examination%20of%20injuries%20and%20in%20cases%20of%20violent%20death.%20Injuries%20caused%20by%20blunt%20and%20sharp%20objects..files/image015.jpg

^^^ This is what we should be looking for, albeit this image shows that the trauma was from a slight angle. You should be able to see that there is a center. Note the size of the facture pieces around the center of the fracture - the size difference should indicate the direction the trauma came from.

[rolypoly]

Wait, so it died from headbutting the alien facility?
For some reason I kept thinking that it had been shoot in the head...

[Zemecon]

Originally posted by Hot Butter:

Wait, so it died from headbutting the alien facility?
For some reason I kept thinking that it had been shoot in the head...

Yeah, it says in one of the PDA downloads that something rammed into the Research Facility and caused all of the glass display panes to break, which afterward was when everything went downhill. Scanning the leviathan skeleton that you find nearby tells you that it was a juvenile and that it died from blunt force trauma. "Blunt Force Trauma" is a forensic term for cranial damage from some sort of collision, either by a tool like a club or a crowbar or a structure like a counter or stairs. In this case it was the side of a building.