The anatomy of a centaur ... Sadly, the centaur skeleton currently on display at the John C.Hodges Library at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville is a piece of art, not science.

A new science of human anatomy arose some 500 years ago ... The association between death and anatomy continued in art anatomy, even as it waned in medical texts, as shown here.

The human skeletal system consists of all of the bones, cartilage, tendons, and ligaments in the body. Altogether, the skeleton makes up about 20 percent of a person’s body weight. An adult’s ...

The structure that your bones grant your body, plus the mobility they enable us to have and the protection they give your organs, makes them invaluable in preserving and continuing human life.

Here are some other facts about the skeleton. Textbooks teach that there are 206 bones in the human skeleton as the anatomical norm. But babies are born with over 300 bones, originally made of ...

Dave Einsel/Getty Images "As I turned it over, I saw the anatomy so distinctive of a human skeleton, of a human ancestor skeleton. And as I looked up the slope, I could see other parts of a ...