skeletal

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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

But he is best known for his inimitable, Surrealist pictures featuring skeletal, architectonic figures—merging humans, animals, foliage, totems and signs—which, though indecipherable, are instantly recognizable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026

The key lies in a skeletal feature previously seen only in bipedal members of the human lineage.

From Science Daily • Jan. 3, 2026

“You have an instant fatality that leaves no marks on the skeletal remains. Unfortunately, the soft tissues that would show us what happened have decomposed in the past hundred years.”

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler