And everywhere the orderly, skeletal bones of foundations, brittle and austere, patterned the brilliant grass.

It was all bone, skeletal beneath the thin, stretched skin.

The skeletal bones of both the manatees and dugong are very dense, which helps to neutralize the buoyancy of their blubber.

In some cases, malformations of certain skeletal bones may also be present.

These elements, however, can fuse with normal skeletal bone.

That's enough to dissolve 1 percent of skeletal bone a year, or 10 percent over the course of a decade.

The discovery team has yet to find any skeletal bones associated with Toumai.

Inskipp snarled, and shook the sheaf of papers in his hand so that they rattled like dry skeletal bones.

But there were too few skeletal bones yet to learn much about other aspects of kadabba.

At Oberlin College, class of 1962, he majored in painting, producing at one point a huge woodcut portraying skeletal bones.