The skeleton allows movement, provides support and protection for vital organs and makes blood cells. Skeletal muscles move the bones in the body. The skeletal system is made from bones and joints.

Sheriff’s officials said the deputies confirmed it was a human skull and found additional skeletal remains. Authorities spent most of Wednesday March 26, 2025, carefully retrieving human ...

In vertebrates, the skeleton of different regions of the body ... developmentally closest to the cells of the central nervous system. The precursor cells of the spine and ribs are somitic mesoderm ...