skeletal
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Up close, its elongated head, skeletal body and glistening double set of jaws reveal just how much unsettling detail goes into a creature often glimpsed onscreen in darkness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
The technique used skeletal material to investigate whether extinct animals were warm-blooded or cold-blooded.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
By August, archaeologists had completed the third phase of the excavation at the site, during which they found the skeletal remains of 572 people, including children and infants.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Anthropologists from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Waterloo led the research, using DNA recovered from skeletal remains and comparing it with samples provided by living descendants.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
They knit themselves together into a skeletal field mouse and scampered off.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
Vocabulary lists containing skeletal
STAAR Biology: Biological Processes and Systems
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Organisms and Environments 5: Human Systems
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Novel Study: Inside Out & Back Again, Unpack and Repack–1976: The Year of the Dragon
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