skeleton
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The skeleton of the full-term boy was discovered during the renovation of a building on Bishop Auckland's Fore Bondgate in July 2024.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Museum paleontologists excavated some 70% of Thomas’s fossilized skeleton in the early 2000s, making it one of the most complete T. rex specimens ever found.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
They help coordinate the formation of organs including the heart, brain, and skeleton.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
The preserved skeleton includes several major bones, making it unusually informative for a dinosaur of its kind.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
And Ob an old arthritic skeleton of a man.
From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant
Nearby, teams of archaeologists worked in tents, assembling skeletons out of the discovered bones and piecing together skulls that were destroyed by blunt-force trauma.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
"We need to analyse the skeletons and find out how these people died. Then we have to carry out DNA tests," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Copernicus observations go back to 1940 but other evidence -- such as ice cores, tree rings and coral skeletons -- allow scientists to place today's climate against a much longer historical context.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
If you remember anything at all, you remember the skeletons.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
Graves and skeletons of members of the Erebus and the Terror were found.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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