infocus #49 March 2018 Imaging Hard - Inside the Skeleton

DOI: 10.22443/rms.inf.1.156

The variability in bone and tooth histology rivals that of all other organ systems, making it an ideal tissue for understanding the development, function, and physiology of organisms. What is more, in deference to soft tissues, bones and teeth survive as fossils, permitting all that we can know from the skeleton about an organism living today to be extrapolated to animals living millions of years ago.