skeletal
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These species represented a range of evolutionary branches, body sizes, and skeletal features.
From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026
Now the creatures' skeletal remains appear to have been found in an Iron Age dig near Cordoba.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026
The skeletal “Drum n Bass” is filled with lines about needing to seem tough when the outside world required it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
These cysts are most commonly found in neurons, but they also appear frequently in skeletal and cardiac muscle.
From Science Daily • Jan. 27, 2026
As Annabeth watched, Small Bob began to grow, his form flickering until the little kitten had become a full-sized, translucent skeletal saber-toothed tiger.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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