The word "skeletons" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as a noun to refer to the bones and supporting structures of a human or an animal. For example, you might say, "The horrifying scene revealed the skeletons of the long-dead animals."
It's a combination of all of my favourite things – fantasy, swords and sandals, swashbuckling fights, stop-motion skeletons – it's got everything I ever wanted as a 12-year-old boy in a film.
What is it about that place and the undead?" The film features Ed Gaughan, who made an impressive debut in British comedy Skeletons, veteran actress Gwen Taylor, Downton Abbey's Dan Stevens and comedienne Lucy Porter.
In 1903, revelations about Poltpalingada's fate sparked a public inquiry that revealed sordid details about the illicit trade in body parts (skeletons £10 apiece) that flourished in Ramsay Smith's morgue.
Medical schools, still under the spell of Darwinism, wanted full corpses and skeletons to compare with the Anglo Saxon dead, so they might reinforce the fallacious orthodoxy that each race represented a distinct evolutionary phase.
The skeletons were found buried in a foetal position – the head pointing to the west and the feet to the east according to ancient Egyptian beliefs, surrounded by jars once filled with supplies for afterlife.
The modest 9ft deep shafts held a dozen skeletons of pyramid builders, perfectly preserved by dry sand along with jars of beer and bread for the afterlife.
The Los Angeles-born special effects pioneer famous for his fighting skeletons and cowboy-fighting dinosaurs influenced generations of film-makers.
It was becoming the fashion, then, to rewrite fairytales, removing anything too bloodthirsty and prettying up the endings, and my parents were worried that all the skeletons and gouged-out eyes in Grimm's would warp my mind.
In 1940 he wrote to the Anatomy Institute: "I regret to say that through lack of cases I was unable to pack most of the specimens or to arrange for shipment… [I] packed 13 cases of skeletons and long bones leaving unpacked enough skeletons and long bones for about 12 cases… I dumped all the incomplete skeletons except long bones into the creek… as you appear to only require complete skeletons".
Saitta carried out an anatomical survey of the shapes of back plates from at least five skeletons discovered in a Stegosaurus "graveyard" in central Montana, as well as plates from at least six individuals discovered elsewhere.
Their skeletons have signs of arthritis, and their lower vertebrae point to a life passed in difficulty, he said.
