• Question: How many bones are in a fully developted humans body?

    Asked by nerd101 to Ben, Jony, Katharine, Mark, Peter on 22 Nov 2011.
    • Photo: Katharine Schofield

      Katharine Schofield answered on 22 Nov 2011:

      Not sure off the top of my head, you can google that one!

    • Photo: Peter Williams

      Peter Williams answered on 22 Nov 2011:

      Two hundred and something, i think. I know the smallest one is in your ear.

    • Photo: Mark Basham

      Mark Basham answered on 22 Nov 2011:

      So there are a lot, and there is info about every one of them on this funky page on wikipedia 🙂

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bones_of_the_human_skeleton

    • Photo: Ben Still

      Ben Still answered on 22 Nov 2011:

      Not sure of the exact number – but I was told by a biology friend that we are born with more bones than we have as adults. This is because a number of bones, such as those of a babies skull, fuse into single bones as we grow older.

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