Thread by @Yara_Haridy

✨ Day 1 of #BoneFacts ✨

Bone is a living tissue bone is NOT dry bone is WET. WAB.

So how come you need lubricants when you need a bone saw, or what does it mean to be “bone-dry”

This is the bone wetness thread no one asked for! 💁🏽‍♀️ 🦴 ☔️

Okay so what’s the deal? You’ve seen bones on display maybe even found a couple and they didn’t strike you as particularly moist.

But trust me bone is WET💦

The water content of bone varies from 12-31% depending what bone, what animal and how old it is.

This is because bones have marrow, cells, nerves and blood vessels. All of those are components that make the ‘bone organ’.

Bones do SO MUCH more than support us, but that’s for another day’s #BoneFacts!

Even if you want to ignore all those parts and you are some kind of hedonistic bone purest. (If so hi let’s be friends) and you say to me-

“But Yara those aren’t TRUE bone” okay then you are talking about bone as a tissue maybe you are referring to the minerals ONLY.

WELL GUESS WHAT. Those minerals are held in place by collagen. And colleges is about 60% water.

No water no bones.

BONES ARE WET AF.

When an bone having vertebrate dies and decomposes often WHATS left are the inorganic part of bones. Just the mineral.

This is why dry bones are so much lighter but also more fragile than YOUR skeleton.

Your bones are strong because they are wet. They can flex!

Bones are wet on every level from the cells that make them to the tissues, to the skeletal organ that supports you. #BoneFacts

9 days till I defend my PhD about bones! Tomorrow’s #BoneFacts maybe REALLY BIG or really smol.

Oops forgot to define “bone dry”.

When bone dries out it is super porous and basically PULLS moisture from wherever it can. This is why dry bone sticks to your tongue- fossils too! @CoastalPaleo demonstrates!

I assume this is why it’s called bone dry. So dry it PULLS water!