• Question: how many bones are in your body?

    Asked by clodaghr to Claire, Elizabeth, Manolis, Mark, Zach on 10 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by williamf5.
    • Photo: Claire Vinten

      Claire Vinten answered on 10 Mar 2014:

      Hi 🙂

      There are 206 bones in a human body. Some are big, for example your leg bones. Some are very very tiny, like the three bones that you have inside your ear to help you hear.

      But did you know that dogs have about 320 bones in their bodies?? That is a lot more!

      Claire 😀

    • Photo: Zach Dixon

      Zach Dixon answered on 11 Mar 2014:

      Hi 🙂

      Exactly like Claire said!

      You have more bones when you are born than when you grow up, babies have around 300 bones! Bones fuse as you grow and so you are left with fewer!

    • Photo: Elizabeth Ratcliffe

      Elizabeth Ratcliffe answered on 11 Mar 2014:

      Excellent, I didn’t know this off the top of my head, learning something new every day, thanks Claire & Zach

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