Skeleton Facts

Babies are born with around 270-300 bones, but adults have only 206. The difference? Many bones fuse together as we grow.

In 2007, the 6,000-year-old skeletal remains of two people embracing were discovered near Mantua, Italy. Known as the 'Lovers of Valdaro,' they had been buried facing each other with their arms and legs intertwined.

In 2003, the skeletal remains of a 6-inch human were found in an abandoned Chilean mining town. Initially a mystery, DNA analysis in 2018 confirmed it was a human female fetus with rare genetic mutations causing severe bone malformations, not an alien as some had speculated.