What would happen if humans didn have bones?
You’d be floppy like a beanbag. Could you stand up? Forget it. Could you walk? No way. Without bones you’d be just a puddle of skin and guts on the floor. Bones have two purposes. Some, like your backbone, provide the structure which enables you to stand erect instead of lying like a puddle on the floor. Other bones protect the delicate, and sometimes soft, insides of your body. Your skull, a series of fused bones, acts like a hard protective helmet for your brain. The bones, or vertebrae, of your spinal column surround your spinal cord, a complex bundle of nerves. Imagine what could happen to your heart and lungs without the protective armor of your rib cage! How many bones do humans have? When you were born you had over 300 bones. As you grew, some of these bones began to fuse together. The result? An adult has only 206 bones! How do my bones move? With a lot of help. You need muscles to pull on bones so that you can move. Along with muscles and joints, bones are responsible for you
