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minus-square Azzy ( @AzzyDev@beehaw.org ) linkfedilink1•1 year agoi 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
minus-square knorke3 ( @knorke3@lemm.ee ) linkfedilink1•1 year agoso by your definition a severed foot is, indeed, a skeleton. huh.
minus-square Azzy ( @AzzyDev@beehaw.org ) linkfedilink1•1 year agoIf an anthropologist found a 2-million year old intact foot, I think they’d call it a skeleton, sure.
minus-square knorke3 ( @knorke3@lemm.ee ) linkfedilink1•1 year agoi somehow have a feeling that they’d call that a partial skeleton (aka. less than one)
minus-square Azzy ( @AzzyDev@beehaw.org ) linkfedilink2•1 year agoehh, partial skeleton, skeleton, what’s the difference? a few missing bones never hurt anybody! /s
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
so by your definition a severed foot is, indeed, a skeleton. huh.
If an anthropologist found a 2-million year old intact foot, I think they’d call it a skeleton, sure.
i somehow have a feeling that they’d call that a partial skeleton (aka. less than one)
ehh, partial skeleton, skeleton, what’s the difference? a few missing bones never hurt anybody! /s