The smallest bones in the body are called the ossicles in the ear ... But personally, I might just use all these muscles, bones and joints to go sit down and catch my breath.

You recover a full skull with teeth, and most of the bones of the body, missing a few smaller vertebrae and toes ... and can be used to tell a child’s age to the year. But once all the adult teeth are ...

If they all were entombed together ... First Family: various teeth and bones The wide range in body size among this one group of individuals lead many anthropologists to think that Lucy, the ...

Having cancer can affect the amount of calcium in the body. Why do we need calcium? Nearly all the calcium in the body is stored in bone tissue. A small amount circulates in our blood and other body ...

The S-shaped bones are some of the first to form in the human body but the last to fuse fully — typically between ages 22 to 25 in humans. They play a critical role in attaching upper limbs to ...

Vitamin D deficiency is characterized by insufficient levels of the vitamin in the body, leading to health issues such as weak muscles and brittle bones. Because vitamin D deficiency may go ...

Your body is made up of over 200 bones, a few trillion microbes ... Without oxygen to keep them alive, the cells self-destruct, spilling all that fluid onto the coffin floor.