Back of the Head

This week it has claws, long arms, a tiger's size, a name for a warrior nobody beat.

What came to the museum in 1924 was the back of a skull, and it went into a drawer the way most things go into drawers, meaning to be looked at later.

Nothing in it moved. A hundred years of other drawers opened and shut, and then a scanner looked through it without opening anything and found the hole the spinal cord came in by was oval, not round, and the crest above it pinched like an hourglass.

That was enough to make it someone. The claws are drawn. The arms are drawn. Its second name is for the amber in the rock. What is the animal is an oval where the cord went in.