By the time you're about 7 weeks pregnant, the map of your baby's entire skeleton has been laid out. Most bones start out as cartilage, a tough but bendable tissue that eventually hardens into bone.

In vertebrates, the skeleton ... bones—also muscles and parts of the skin. The third group originates from the lateral plate ...

Skeletal muscles move the bones in the body. The skeletal system is made from bones and joints. The femur bone in the thigh is the longest and strongest bone in the body. The smallest bones in the ...

Credit: ITV News The skeletal remains of a sailor from several centuries ago are finally set to be laid to rest after being discovered on the Cornish coast. The bones were first found at Trevone ...

All mammals have skeletons ... Support - The bones in your legs, back and neck keep you upright. Let's try to identify our joints. Find a picture of yourself or print one out.

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.