My answer to this question might be a little different! When I go hunting for bones as a vet, it is usually during an emergency operation when a dog has eaten a bone and it has got stuck somewhere.. I once had to remove a whole chicken leg bone from the belly of a little dog, so I guess that’s probably the biggest bone, I’ve found so far! The little dog was ok afterwards 🙂
I work at lots of different beaches where the sea breaks up the coastline. The cliffs have lots of fossils and bones in them so if you go after a storm, lots of fossils and bones are revealed on the beach.
I have only found fossils but I know people who have found mammoth bones and tusks when the tide goes out!
Let’s talk about the biggest human bone I’ve ever studied!
It was a thigh bone belonging to this Medieval English person who live 800 years ago. Their thigh bone was 58 cm long – can you imagine that! The man must have had a lot of good, nutritious food when he was growing up, and a hard-working lifestyle that gave him such strong, robust bones.
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