Why Are Our Skeletons on the Inside - References

Special thanks Riley Black author of Skeleton Keys https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/534975/skeleton-keys-by-riley-black-brian-switek/

How Bones Connect Life’s Past, Present, and Future https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/skeleton-keys-bones-connect-life-past-present-future-180971617/

How Did Animals Get Their Skeletons https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/11/how-did-animals-get-their-skeletons

Summary Statistics, IUCN Redlist 2019 https://www.iucnredlist.org/resources/summary-statistics#Summary%20Tables

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