• Question: how many bones are there in a rat?

    Asked by liam2k12 to Anna, Jonathan, Samantha, Sam on 29 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Samantha Weaver

      Samantha Weaver answered on 29 Jun 2012:

      Rats have 223 bones – 17 more than a human adult!

    • Photo: Jonathan Kay

      Jonathan Kay answered on 29 Jun 2012:

      I don’t know. But the number of bones in adult humans is a bit different from person to person. This is not because Eve got a rib from Adam!

    • Photo: Angharad Davies

      Angharad Davies answered on 29 Jun 2012:

      I don’t know that much about rat skeletons. But they have the same number of neck bones – seven – as a giraffe! So do humans and most other mamals.

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