In the end,all there will be is a giant puddle of water, the bronze skeleton and plaques a kind of testimony to the crisis of climate change.

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

Well, you could think about the cell wall of a bacterium as its skeleton, it's what protects it from mechanical forces that are out in the world.

你可能认为细菌的细胞壁,就像骨骼一样,使其免受,外界机械力的伤害

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

That's how long it took for an international team of scientists to excavate and analyze the fossilized skeleton of a 4.4 million year old human ancestor, Ardipithecus ramidus, which was discovered in Ethiopia.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24