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skeletal

[skel-i-tl] / ˈskɛl ɪ tl /


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Published in Nature Communications, the research combines archaeology, ancient DNA analysis, isotope studies, and skeletal evidence to reconstruct how people lived, moved, ate, and buried their dead roughly 3,000 years ago.

From Science Daily • May 19, 2026

A blood-red tree descends, its skeletal branches and ropy roots suggesting veins and arteries.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

Researchers analyzing ancient genomes and skeletal remains have found increasing evidence that multiple migration waves entered Japan over centuries, creating a much more layered population history than previously believed.

From Science Daily • May 14, 2026

Kevin Young, the project’s lead manufacturing engineer, remembered thinking as he watched the skeletal frame disappear into the paint machine.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

A long skeletal arm flies across my waist.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas




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