skeleton
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Here’s the thing about the Neko Health scan: It’s not an MRI, so it can’t see into your organs or skeleton and check for any issues happening there.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
"You can swim for hours and hours along the reef in the lagoon, just skeleton after skeleton. It's all dead," said marine biologist Austin Bowden-Kerby, who visited last year and documented the devastation.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
It included a nearly intact skeleton of a Columbian mammoth, dubbed Zed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
The skeleton showed no signs of traumatic injury, she said, and the cause of death was deemed to be "unascertained".
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
The truck was grayish brown like everything else, and lay slumped and broken on the road like the skeleton of a dead animal.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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Some tips for scaredy cats: If you don’t like spooky scary skeletons, creepy crawlies, or horror flicks, Halloween season can be a fright to endure.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
He’s said: “I set out to write this book thinking I’d reveal where all the skeletons are buried. Turns out most of them are mine.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
BOROVE, Ukraine—Earlier this summer, a small crowd gathered around six freshly exhumed human skeletons protruding from the ground on the edge of a sunflower field in Ukraine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
"We need to analyse the skeletons and find out how these people died. Then we have to carry out DNA tests," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Evidence from fossilised skeletons indicates that ancient foragers were less likely to suffer from starvation or malnutrition, and were generally taller and healthier than their peasant descendants.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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