| There are 27 bones and more than 30 muscles in
each hand.
All bones have jobs. The skull bones protect
the brain.
The neck has seven bones. A giraffe has seven
neck bones too, but its bones are very long.
There are more than 20 small bones in the backbone
or spine. Each bone has a hole in it for the spinal cord.
The hip bone or pelvis is six bones joined
together. It is shaped like a bowl.
The thigh bone is called a femur. It
is the strongest, heaviest, and longest bone in the human body.
The leg bone is really two bones. The
fibula is on the side and the tibia is in the front.
There are more than 20 bones in each foot!
The foot bones grow faster than any other bones in the body.

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