skeletal
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These species represented a range of evolutionary branches, body sizes, and skeletal features.
From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026
The palm wood snaking through the center of Mohammad Al Faraj’s eerie installation seems like the skeletal vertebrae of some giant creature.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
Navarro also built a detailed 3D physical model by layering muscle and skin over a skeletal framework.
From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026
Now the creatures' skeletal remains appear to have been found in an Iron Age dig near Cordoba.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026
The ends of the arm branches, extending from the sleeves, looked like beckoning, skeletal hands.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
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