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Why are babies so flexible?
So where do those extra bones go? For a baby to be born, the whole skeleton has to be squashy, so many of the bones are joined with flexible cartilage. And after birth, those bones start fusing ...
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17,000-year-old blue-eyed baby boy’s skeleton found, unlocks Ice Age secrets
For reference, skeletal remains can indeed preserve such detailed information. By extracting DNA from the petrous bone, known ...
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Analysing the bones: what can a skeleton tell you?
It is spread through sexual contact and can be passed on from mother to baby. The disease is thankfully ... can spot the tell-tale signs of this disease. Skeletons across the ages display degenerative ...
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Learning From Skeletons
The older the person at death, the more pitted and craggy these bones will be. Forensic anthropologists will compare this against a database of standard markers to learn the age of the skeleton.
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Guidelines for the prenatal diagnosis of fetal skeletal dysplasias
Diagnosis of prenatal-onset skeletal dysplasias can be accomplished ... including histomorphic analysis of cartilage and bone. Obtaining a precise diagnosis by prenatal ultrasound diagnosis ...
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The skeletal system
Skeletal muscles move the bones in the body. The skeletal system is made from bones and joints. The femur bone in the thigh is the longest and strongest bone in the body. The smallest bones in the ...
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Learning From Skeletons
The older the person at death, the more pitted and craggy these bones will be. Forensic anthropologists will compare this against a database of standard markers to learn the age of the skeleton.