Skeletal muscles move the bones in the body. The skeletal system is made from bones and joints. The femur bone in the thigh is the longest and strongest bone in the body. The smallest bones in the ...

Adduction – movement towards the midline of the body. This occurs at the hip and shoulder, returning the arms and legs back to their original position from a jumping jack movement. Circumduction ...

In vertebrates, the skeleton of different regions of the body arises from different precursor cells. Researchers have now discovered that these skeletal cells do not just differ in their developmental ...

Days after an Atlanta man died in a scuba diving accident in Hawaii, authorities said they found the skeletal remains of his of his son who had gone missing four years prior in a tree house in his ...

Researchers in Prague, Czech Republic, examined the skeletal remains of 69 adults males, 30 of whom were scribes, who were ...

Researchers at the University of Basel have now discovered that these skeletal cells do not just differ in their ... which are produced on the back of the embryo and are developmentally closest to the ...