Other parts of the body are made up of smaller, intricate bones. Hands are made up of 27 bones and feet have 26. Hands aren’t where the smallest bone resides, though.

Hegedus says each muscle type is distinguished by different functions. "The muscles you can see that give our body its shape and help us move are skeletal muscles; the ones that mostly function ...

Certain areas of the body contain a higher concentration of bones than other areas. The skull may seem like one continuous segment, but it’s actually made up of more than 20 different bits.

Babies are born with around 300 bones, but some of these will fuse together with age. By adulthood, they’ll have just over 200 bones. It may be difficult to imagine when looking at a tiny ...

Mammal fetuses have approximately 43 bones that are developmentally distinct, "but some of them fuse as mammals grow," and the number of fused bones may differ among mammal groups, Jack Tseng, a ...