A closer look
Babies are born with around three hundred individual bones, but as they grow into adults, that number drops to exactly two hundred and six because many of them fuse together during normal skeletal development. your skull alone starts out in multiple pieces to squeeze through the birth canal, which is a horrifying logistical nightmare that biology just somehow accepts as standard practice. over time, those tiny calcium fragments merge to form the rigid adult skeleton you now drag out of bed every morning to go pay taxes. it is almost tragic that you peaked in bone density and quantity before you could even speak, and now you are just a structurally simplified adult whose remaining, allegedly superior bones start groaning the second you try to pick up a dropped pen. nature robbed you of nearly a hundred bones and did not even give you the decency of a flexible spine in return 💀
