Scientifics - April 2014
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Sil's Skeletal Spotlight
The English word "skull" comes from skalli, the Old Norse word for "bald." Clever name. But the skull is rather clever, too. It is actually a structure comprised of 22 bones that fit together like pieces of a puzzle at immovable joints called sutures. The skull is clever because of what it can tell us.
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