Bone Facts
  • Human and Chicken skeletons have some things in common. Did you know if you didn't have a spine you would be one big blob.
  • The skeletal system has three main jobs, protecting the main organs like the brain and heart, keeping the body shape and assisting with movement.
  • Chickens have 307 bones. Human beings have 360 bones when they are born and about 206 by the time you're 10.
  • Bones contain marrow and make blood cells.
  • Some of our bones and a chickens bones have the same scientific names. The clavical or collar bone, ulna and radius in your lower arm, phalanges (finger bones) femar and tibia in your legs and many more.
  • Bones grow and repair themselves right through our lives. When you are going through puberty sometimes they grow faster than your muscles. We call this pain growing pains.
  • Humans and chickens have internal skeletons but most creatures do not have an internal skeleton. If your skeleton is on the outside like a crabs it's called an exoskeleton.
  • Birds' bones are sometimes hollow to make less weight so the bird can fly.
  • The smallest bones in the human body are in your ear. They are called the Malleus, the Incus and the Stapes.