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Where one sees a hole in the skull, there was often muscle in the living head, particularly in the skills of the big meat-eaters. Other holes (or "voids") may be sinuses and spaces in general served to lighten the head, fairly important if the creature has it on the end of a long, long neck. By the way, we distinquish the larger group to which dinosaurs belonged (Diapsidae) by the fact that the skulls all have two particular holes, whereas the creatures ancestral to the mammals have only one.

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