Human and Animals

• The skeleton is the structure of the bones inside a human’s or animal’s body.

• Bones has characteristics, such as hard, strong and not heavy.

• Human and animals that have skeleton called vertebrates. Some animals have skeleton in their body.

• Not all animals has skeleton in their body. They called invertebrates.

• ​Skeleton are very important for humans and animals because it support their body, it give shape and covered their organ.

• Adult has about 206 bones, and baby has about 300 bones. Baby has more bones because as they grow up, some of bones fuse together to form one bone.

Skeleton

​Bones inside humans body has different shapes and size. There are flat bones, long bones, short bones and irregular bones.Example:

Flat bones : skull bones, shoulder blade.

Longbones : upper arm bones.

Short bones : thumb bones.

Irregular bones : spine/vertebrate

Skeleton