A dinosaur skeleton discovered by an eagle-eyed high ... Even better, they were able to sample the baby's leg bone. As dinosaur bones grow, they develop ring patterns, much like trees.

Pieced together from a slew of separate parts, it's been with you since you were a baby, plying you with the cells and substances that you need to survive. We're talking about your skeleton, of course ...

So where do those extra bones go? For a baby to be born, the whole skeleton has to be squashy, so many of the bones are joined with flexible cartilage. And after birth, those bones start fusing ...

For reference, skeletal remains can indeed preserve such detailed information. By extracting DNA from the petrous bone, known for its ability to preserve genetic material, researchers successfully ...

It is spread through sexual contact and can be passed on from mother to baby. The disease is thankfully ... can spot the tell-tale signs of this disease. Skeletons across the ages display degenerative ...

The older the person at death, the more pitted and craggy these bones will be. Forensic anthropologists will compare this against a database of standard markers to learn the age of the skeleton.