Yeah, bones get a lot of attention, but they’d be pretty uselessby themselves. We’d flop around like a bony jellyfish. But connectthose bones together and you’ve got a flexible, strong skeletonthat ...

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You have thousands of ligaments and tendons in your body. Both are made of connective tissue and can be torn or overstretched, but they differ in function and are essential to proper body mechanics.

Modern pantherine cats—such as leopards, tigers and lions—can roar because of a very specialized setup of small throat bones and ligaments that form part of their larynx, or voicebox. Now ...

Russian reindeer herders have found parts of a well-preserved skeleton of a woolly mammoth in a Siberian lake, with more fragments likely still hiding in the silt. Some of the bones still have ...