• Question: How many bones does baby's have

    Asked by ummy8 to Michael on 8 Nov 2016.
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      Michael Rivera answered on 8 Nov 2016:

      Babies are born with around 300 bones, but many of them fuse together – and the typical adult person has 206 bones in total.

      Some of your leg and arm bones don’t fuse until you’re around 14 or 16 years old.

      Your collarbone is the last to fuse – it can fuse anywhere between 20 and 30 years old. So if you get an injury to the collarbone as a young student, you really do not want to get hurt there! This can cause problems later on at the joints!

      Michael 🙂

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