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  2. Enostosis - Wikipedia

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    An enostosis is a small area of compact bone within the cancellous bone. [1] [2] They are commonly seen as an incidental finding on radiographs or CT scans. They are typically very small and do not cause any symptoms. [3] Their radiodensity is generally similar to cortical bone. [4] No treatment is necessary. Multiple enostoses are present in ...

  3. Idiopathic osteosclerosis - Wikipedia

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    Idiopathic osteosclerosis, also known as enostosis or dense bone island, is a condition which may be found around the roots of a tooth, usually a premolar or molar. [2] It is usually painless and found during routine radiographs as an amorphous radiopaque (light) area around a tooth.

  4. Pygmy mammoth - Wikipedia

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    The small bones were preserved in life position, which represented that it had died where it was found rather than being scattered around the island. The bones were returned to the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. [4] After the discovery of the skeleton, a pedestrian survey of the island began. This resulted in the discovery of 160 new ...

  5. Homo floresiensis - Wikipedia

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    Homo floresiensis (/ f l ɔːr ˈ ɛ z iː ˌ ɛ n. s ɪ s /), also known as "Flores Man" or "Hobbit" (after the fictional species), is an extinct species of small archaic humans that inhabited the island of Flores, Indonesia, until the arrival of modern humans about 50,000 years ago.

  6. List of bones of the human skeleton - Wikipedia

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    It is composed of 270 bones at the time of birth, [2] but later decreases to 206: 80 bones in the axial skeleton and 126 bones in the appendicular skeleton. 172 of 206 bones are part of a pair and the remaining 34 are unpaired. [3] Many small accessory bones, such as sesamoid bones, are not included in this.

  7. List of islands of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lanka Pigeon Island Nainativu Bone Island, Batticaloa Kakaraitivu Island 17th century Dutch map of Sri Lanka with the Dutch names of the Jaffna islands Sri Lanka is an island country in the Indian Ocean. There are also a number of smaller islands around Sri Lanka, most abundantly in the north and eastern parts of the islands. The most prominent islets are west of the Jaffna Peninsula in ...

  8. Balaur bondoc - Wikipedia

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    Skeletal reconstruction showing known remains in white. The first small bones belonging to Balaur bondoc consisted of six elements of the front limbs. Named specimens FGGUB R. 1580–1585, these were discovered in 1997 in Romania by Dan Grigorescu, but the morphology of the arm was so unusual that scientists could not correctly combine them, [6] [7] mistaking them for the remains of an ...

  9. Liang Bua - Wikipedia

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    Liang Bua is a limestone cave on the island of Flores, Indonesia, slightly north of the town of Ruteng in Manggarai Regency, East Nusa Tenggara.The cave demonstrated archaeological and paleontological potential in the 1950s and 1960s as described by the Dutch missionary and archaeologist Theodor L. Verhoeven.