The rib cage is part of the axial skeleton. The average human is born with the same number of ribs regardless of gender. The ribs articulate with the thoracic vertebra. For example, the first rib ...

Skeletal muscles move the bones in the body ... which is protected by bones called vertebrae. Then there's the rib cage and sternum, which protect the heart and lungs. Besides protecting our ...

A. M. Shaw, of the University of Saskatchewan, suspected that the difference might be due to variations in the numbers of ribs. He accordingly counted them and found that, of nine carcases ...