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 ...

multinucleate muscle fibres arranged in a striated pattern. Skeletal muscle is attached to the skeleton by tendons, and maintains the position of bones and has a role in their movement through ...

Perhaps sadly, one of the easiest things to tell about someone’s life from their skeleton is what diseases they had. Markers of disease in the teeth and bones of an individual can say something about ...

Skeletal muscle is joined to bones. Its cells contract to make bones move and joints bend. Skeletal muscles always come in pairs, just like trainers. But there is a little bit more to it than that.

But during a recent reexamination of the bones, researchers noticed peculiarities. For instance, the skeleton’s spine appeared to be made of both adolescent and adult vertebrae. “I started ...

Archaeologists have unravelled the mystery of a strange skeleton from Belgium consisting of bones from five people who lived 2,500 years apart. The skeleton, unearthed in the 1970s at a Roman ...

Forensic scientists have been analysing Bronze Age bones found in a field - but how ... a burial cist - or stone coffin - containing a skeleton and a jug. Sanita Nezirovic, a lecturer in forensic ...