skeletal
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For this project, the Triebold Paleontology team used high-resolution 3D scans of fossil specimens to reconstruct the animal's skeletal structure and armored skin features.
From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026
These species represented a range of evolutionary branches, body sizes, and skeletal features.
From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026
Now the creatures' skeletal remains appear to have been found in an Iron Age dig near Cordoba.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026
But he is best known for his inimitable, Surrealist pictures featuring skeletal, architectonic figures—merging humans, animals, foliage, totems and signs—which, though indecipherable, are instantly recognizable.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026
His eyes opened wide in their dark pits, and his thin, skeletal arms flailed the air before him as if he were striking at the furies of hell.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
Vocabulary lists containing skeletal
STAAR Biology: Biological Processes and Systems
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Organisms and Environments 5: Human Systems
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Novel Study: Inside Out & Back Again, Unpack and Repack–1976: The Year of the Dragon
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