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How common is it to have extra bones in your skeleton?
Some adults do indeed have more than 206 bones. These extras, known as accessory bones or supernumerary bones, may occur when ...
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Extra bones are more common than you think, here's how often it happens
Human skeletons are often described in neat textbook numbers, but real bodies are far messier and more interesting. Extra ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The human skeleton — our internal framework that includes bones and cartilage — evolved over ...
Scientists used fragments of the child's right forearm bone to date the skeletal remains. Cidália Duarte In 1998, archaeologists discovered the skeletal remains of a child in Portugal’s Lapedo Valley.
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