Do babies really have more bones than adults?
A newborn has about 300 bones. You have around 206. You lost almost 100 by growing up.
Babies are born with roughly 300 bones, many of them still soft cartilage in separate pieces. As a child grows, the cartilage hardens into bone and neighboring pieces fuse together, so an adult ends up with about 206.
A newborn's skull is several separate plates with soft gaps you can feel - those gaps let the head squeeze out during birth, then the plates fuse into one solid skull.
Growing up merges bones, it does not add them - fewer bones means a more finished skeleton.
It rewires the gut instinct that bigger means more, and explains why a baby's skull feels soft on top.
Baby 300, adult 206: you grow up by gluing bones together, not collecting more.
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