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An 11-story Catrina -- an elegantly dressed female skeleton -- stands in the Zocalo, the capital's main square, as part of this year's festivities.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026

Options could include using a spooky fake skeleton hand to share out treats, rather than letting children reach into a bowl, or dressing up to meet trick or treaters.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

“It used to be the occasional skeleton, and now we have become desensitized to the darkness,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Although the scientists did not recover a complete skeleton, the preserved backbone provides important clues about the snake's enormous proportions.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

It was quiet all around her, but the skeleton birds watched her from their perches, the trees pulled close like they were feeding off her fear.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

Because most prehistoric vertebrates are known primarily through their fossilized skeletons, reconstructing their behavior is one of paleontology's greatest challenges.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

The review covered hundreds of species on the IUCN's "red list" -- icons like staghorn and table corals whose mineral skeletons give reefs their dazzling three-dimensional complexity.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Some tips for scaredy cats: If you don’t like spooky scary skeletons, creepy crawlies, or horror flicks, Halloween season can be a fright to endure.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

BOROVE, Ukraine—Earlier this summer, a small crowd gathered around six freshly exhumed human skeletons protruding from the ground on the edge of a sunflower field in Ukraine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

I was surprised that their dislocated skeletons looked just the way I’d imagined them.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver