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[–] AzzyDev@beehaw.org 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

i think a skeleton is just multiple bones together that are attached. A pile of bones isn’t a skeleton, it’s a pile of bones

[–] knorke3@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

so by your definition a severed foot is, indeed, a skeleton. huh.

[–] AzzyDev@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If an anthropologist found a 2-million year old intact foot, I think they’d call it a skeleton, sure.

[–] knorke3@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

i somehow have a feeling that they'd call that a partial skeleton (aka. less than one)

[–] AzzyDev@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

ehh, partial skeleton, skeleton, what’s the difference? a few missing bones never hurt anybody! /s