We're Growing Little Skull Horns Because Of Our Phones
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... moreWe're Growing Little Skull Horns Because Of Our Phones
News 9 Hours AgoNewser — John Johnson
It sounds like a crazy tabloid headline—humans are growing little horns in the back of their skulls. Except it comes not from a tabloid but a peer-reviewed study in Scientific Reports.
Australian researchers say more people, young ones especially, are showing up with what's known as an "enlarged external occipital protuberance" on the back of their skulls, just above the neck, reports the Washington Post.
The leading theory is that these spikes are caused by all the time people spend hunched over their phones. It's throwing the body out of whack, resulting in the formation of what's been variously described in coverage as bone spurs, phone bones, a bird's beak, and head horns.
(The study itself includes an X-ray photo.) If you have one, you'd likely be able to feel it with your fingers, notes the BBC.
It might even be visible as a little bump if you're bald. "... less
