skeletal

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Now the creatures' skeletal remains appear to have been found in an Iron Age dig near Cordoba.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026

The skeletal “Drum n Bass” is filled with lines about needing to seem tough when the outside world required it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

The study was published Dec. 15 in "Structural basis for simvastatin-induced skeletal muscle weakness associated with RyR1 T4709M mutation," in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

From Science Daily • Jan. 14, 2026

The key lies in a skeletal feature previously seen only in bipedal members of the human lineage.

From Science Daily • Jan. 3, 2026

Just before Thanksgiving, the first of the cold fronts from Canada finally reached us, and the trees abruptly dropped their leaves and turned black and skeletal.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam