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Skeletons and Huggers and Melons — Oh My!

  • February 16, 2020

Popular Science revealed some fascinating fun facts about the human skeleton, including: You start off as an infant with 300 bones, but after you’re done growing and your bones are done fusing, your adult skeleton will have only 206 bones. The humerus or upper arm bone starts as three or four separate pieces of cartilage and transforms into bone from the time after birth until puberty. The skull starts as 44 separate elements and a baby’s skull is one of the...