Why are there joints in our skulls?

The skull bones are connected by fibrous joints called sutures. A suture is a type of fibrous joint that is only found in the skull. The bones are bound together by Sharpey's fibres. read more

Also, it would be “difficult” to make 1 big bone for the entire skull so it seems that the body makes the skull out of many bones that (eventually) join together (either by fibrous joints or actually fuse together into a single bone (like the frontal)). read more

There is only one vomer and this bone is surrounded by the sphenoid bone, the maxilla, the ethmoid bone and the palatine bone. The pair of nasal bones links to each other and to the frontal bone and to the maxilla. The lacrimal bones do not link to one another, but to the frontal bone, the maxilla, the ethmoid bone and the inferior nasal concha. read more