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skeletal

[skel-i-tl] / ˈskɛl ɪ tl /


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The researchers examined ancient DNA, stable oxygen and strontium isotopes, and skeletal remains from the burials.

From Science Daily • May 19, 2026

Published in Nature Communications, the research combines archaeology, ancient DNA analysis, isotope studies, and skeletal evidence to reconstruct how people lived, moved, ate, and buried their dead roughly 3,000 years ago.

From Science Daily • May 19, 2026

Keenan had suffered rhabdomyolysis, a life-threatening medical emergency caused by rapid, extensive skeletal muscle breakdown, which can be brought on by extreme exertion.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

Kevin Young, the project’s lead manufacturing engineer, remembered thinking as he watched the skeletal frame disappear into the paint machine.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

The skeletal hands dissolved back into the earth.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan




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