The skeleton is the framework of the body—protecting your organs, enabling movement and housing the bone marrow that makes ...

A baby's body has about 300 bones at birth. These eventually fuse to form the 206 bones that adults generally have, according to the Nemours ... stapes — the Latin names for hammer, anvil ...

The first "blueprint" of human skeletal development reveals how the skeleton ... about bone development and how this influences conditions affecting these tissues that occur in children and ...

The older the person at death, the more pitted and craggy these bones will be. Forensic anthropologists will compare this against a database of standard markers to learn the age of the skeleton.