osteology

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Experts in fields ranging from fine art, osteology, computer tomology, and craniofacial reconstruction worked together to create the likenesses from two mummies acquired abroad and brought to Baltimore more than a century ago.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 8, 2018

He holds a plastic skull in his hand, quizzing another student, Lauren Glick, for an osteology exam.

From National Geographic • Jul. 29, 2016

P. Willey, a physical anthropologist who specializes in osteology, or the study of bones, who was then at the University of Tennessee, was one of several experts who studied the remains.

From Washington Times • Feb. 9, 2015

Relationships between osteology and aquatic locomotion in birds: determining modes of locomotion in extinct Ornithurae.

From Scientific American • Jan. 27, 2014

The cranial osteology was studied by using skeletons and cleared and stained specimens of all species.

From The Systematics of the Frogs of the Hyla Rubra Group in Middle America by león, Juan R.