New self-deceiving rags are hurriedly tossed on the too-naked bones.

The lower portion permits comparison of maturity levels of short and round bones predominantly, since only two long bones are included in Hand and Wrist as a region.

The bones are hollow and lightweight.

The bones are fully ossified and the vertebrae interlock with each by means of overlapping processes.

In front of the large windows, as if they were pillars that support the complex stone structure, there are six fine columns that seem to simulate the bones of a limb, with an apparent central articulation ; in fact, this is a floral decoration.

There are accounts of a son of Ares, Cycnus ( Κύκνος ) of Macedonia, who was so murderous that he tried to build a temple with the skulls and the bones of travellers.

At birth, there are over 270 bones in an infant human's body, but many of these fuse together as the child grows, leaving a total of 206 separate bones in an adult.

The largest bone in the human body is the femur and the smallest bones are auditory ossicles.

* Sound transduction — bones are important in the mechanical aspect of overshadowed hearing.

There are five types of bones in the human body: long, short, flat, irregular, and sesamoid.

* Long bones are characterized by a shaft, the diaphysis, that is much longer than it is wide.

Most bones of the limbs, including those of the fingers and toes, are long bones.

* Short bones are roughly cube-shaped, and have only a thin layer of compact bone surrounding a spongy interior.

The bones of the wrist and ankle are short bones, as are the sesamoid bones.

* Flat bones are thin and generally curved, with two parallel layers of compact bones sandwiching a layer of spongy bone.

Most of the bones of the skull are flat bones, as is the sternum.

Let us now put some flesh on the theoretical bones we have assembled by giving illustrations of roleplaying used for evaluation and analysis.

One thing alone I ask of you, holy Fathers, permit me to live in silence in these forests, near the bones of 17 of my brethren now dead.

Viking raids in 875 led to the monks fleeing the island with St Cuthbert's bones ( The bones of St Cuthbert are now buried at the Cathedral in Durham ).

While the first Pteranodon wing bones were collected by Marsh and Cope in the early 1870s, the first Pteranodon skull was found on May 2, 1876, along the Smoky Hill River in Wallace County ( now Logan County ), Kansas, USA, by Samuel Wendell Williston, a fossil collector working for Marsh.

In 1842, John Bennet Lawes discovered that bones treated with sulfuric acid produced a soluble fertilizer now known as superphosphate.

Previous dating of some Kiore ( Polynesian rat ) bones at 50-150 CE has now been shown to have been unreliable ; new samples of bone ( and now also of unequivocally rat-gnawed woody seed cases ) match the 1280 CE date of the earliest archaeological sites and the beginning of sustained, anthropogenic deforestation.

Some caverns in Malta have revealed bones of elephants, hippopotami, and other large animals now found in Africa, while others have revealed animals native to Europe.

An ancient Greek marble sarcophagus had been reused to bury the Saint ; but his bones were stolen in 1087 by merchants from Bari, and are now held in the cathedral of that city.

His bones now rest in one of several " mortuary chests " in Winchester Cathedral.

Other finds are now held at the Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, Cardiff: Early Bronze Age, or Beaker, collared urn pottery ; flaked knives ; a scraper ; flint flakes ; a bone spatula ; a needle & bead ; and animal bones – the remains of domesticated animals, cat and dog.

No further scientific examination has since been conducted on the bones, which remain in Westminster Abbey, and DNA analysis, which would now determine the sex, has not, so far, been attempted.

: now their bones are resting

: now their bones are resting

Modern techniques of forensic analysis now suggest that some injuries, such as broken bones and crushed skulls, were not the result of torture, but rather due to the weight of the bog.

:" In a special compartment of the shrine now there showed-along with remains of ancient old rotten or moulded bandages, most likely byssus, besides pieces of aromatic resins and similar substances-numerous bones of three persons, which under the guidance of several present experts could be assembled into nearly complete bodies: the one in his early youth, the second in his early manhood, the third was rather aged.

Sections of large rib bones and lower leg bones are the most commonly used true bones, although wooden sticks shaped like the earlier true bones are now more often used.

Agnes ' bones are now conserved in the church of Sant ' Agnese fuori le mura in Rome, built over the catacomb.

Archaeological evidence indicates that an ancient submerged forest was located on what is now the foreshore of Mumbles Bay The bones of bears, wolves, hyenas, deer, rhinoceros and mammoth have been discovered there.

A cow was tossed into the river, setting off a wild feeding frenzy that quickly reduced the carcass to bones — the " instant skeleton " now associated with piranhas.

An affinity between the amphibians and the teleost fish is the multi-folded structure of the teeth and the paired supra-occipital bones at the back of the head, both features not found elsewhere in the animal kingdom.

They found that only one of the 319 Albertosaurus foot bones checked for stress fractures actually had them and none of the four hand bones did.

Intermingled with the Albertosaurus remains of the Dry Island bonebed, the bones of the small theropod Albertonykus were found.

Other types of tissue found in bones include marrow, endosteum, periosteum, nerves, blood vessels and cartilage.

In adults, red marrow is mostly found in the marrow bones of the femur, the ribs, the vertebrae and pelvic bones.

One of the earliest accounts relating to a large unknown freshwater animal was in 1818, when Hamilton Hume and James Meehan found some large bones at Lake Bathurst in New South Wales.

Skulls and human bones found at Samrong Sen date from 1500 BCE.

This theory is based on the large amount of " butchered human " bones found in Neanderthal and other Lower / Middle Paleolithic sites.

The oracle bone script numerals were found on tortoise shell and animal bones.

The earliest evidence of the Chinese calendar is found on the oracle bones of the Shang Dynasty ( late second millennium BC ), which seem to describe a lunisolar year of 12 months, with a possible intercalary 13th, or even 14th, added empirically to prevent calendar drift.

The bones of cattle, deer, and swine have been found in excavated crannogs while remains of wooden utensils and even dairy products can remain completely preserved for several millennia.

In the early phases bones of numerous bodies are often found together and it has been argued that this suggests that in death at least, the status of individuals was played down.

It was in use for 800 years or more and numerous bird bones were found here, predominantly White-tailed Sea Eagle.

These include Quanterness chambered cairn ( 3250 BC ) in which the remains of 157 individuals were found when excavated in the 1970s, Cuween Hill near Finstown which was found to contain the bones of men, dogs and oxen and Wideford Hill cairn, which dates from 2000 BC.

Glámr, the undead shepherd of the Grettis saga, was reported to be dark blue in color and in Laxdœla saga the bones of a dead sorceress who had appeared in dreams were dug up and found to be " blue and evil looking.

Around the excavation of the 18 shrines found on the spot, thousands of carp bones were found, consumed possibly in feasts to the God.

Known from bones found in the Yorktown Formation of the Lee Creek Mine in North Carolina, it is believed to have split along with the Great Auk from a common ancestor.

Its bones have been found as far south as Florida, where it may have occurred during four isolated time periods: around 1000 BC, 1000 AD, the 15th century, and the 17th century.

Based on remains associated with Great Auk bones found on Funk Island and on ecological and morphological considerations, it seems that Atlantic Menhaden and Capelin were their favored prey.

The Great Auk is known to have been preyed upon by Neanderthals more than 100, 000 years ago, as evidenced by well-cleaned bones found by their campfires.

Nearly half of the bird bones found in graves at this site were of the Great Auk, suggesting that it had cultural significance for the Maritime Archaic people.