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Skeletons are often associated with death as part of the body you rarely see during
life. However, you might be surprised to learn that the skeleton is living tissue. Far more than stiff, biological scaffolding, the skeleton comes with its own network of blood vessels, cells, proteins and minerals, continuously transforming and self-repairing to keep your body strong and healthy. The bones that make up your skeleton connect to form shields around delicate organs. The skull seals up when a baby is three months old and its joints close to complete the brain’s armour. Meanwhile, the ribs cross over the heart and lungs like the bars of a cage and a string of vertebrae conceal your spinal cord. Bones also give the body structure. But the skeleton would fall limply into a pile of bones without the assistance of the rest of the skeletal system.
“The bones that make up your skeleton connect to form shields around delicate organs”