832-156031 - Ossuary, skulls and bones of the explosion victims, Arkadi Monastery, Moni Arkadi, National Monument, Crete, Greece, Europe

832-155891 - Antique bone china plates at San Telmo Market, Plaza Dorrego, Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America

832-140583 - Ossuary, Hallstatt, Salzkammergut, Upper Austria, Europe

832-140584 - Ossuary, Hallstatt, Salzkammergut, Upper Austria, Europe

832-125284 - Pressure gauge, above 3000 bar, cold-cutting process with high pressure water jet technology, test series in the Underwater Technology Centre at the Leibniz University Hannover, manufacture of bone screws for medical applications, with over 3000 bar press

832-108595 - Museum of Natural History, Maria Theresienplatz square, 1st district, Vienna, Austria, Europe

1112-791 - Whale remains in Gashamna (Goose Bay), Hornsund, Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard Archipelago, Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

1112-792 - Whale remains in Gashamna (Goose Bay), Hornsund, Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard Archipelago, Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

1112-773 - Whale remains in Gashamna (Goose Bay), Hornsund, Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard Archipelago, Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

832-75901 - Museum guide with a whalebone, Fyffe House, whalers' house from 1842, Kaikoura Peninsula, South Island, New Zealand

832-75902 - Whalebone, Fyffe House, whalers' house from 1842, Kaikoura Peninsula, South Island, New Zealand

817-413102 - The Bizarre Bone Church At Kutna Hora, Near Prague, Czech Republic, Where Everything Is Made Out Of Human Bones

817-413099 - The Bizarre Bone Church At Kutna Hora, Near Prague, Czech Republic, Where Everything Is Made Out Of Human Bones

817-413101 - The Bizarre Bone Church At Kutna Hora, Near Prague, Czech Republic, Where Everything Is Made Out Of Human Bones

817-413103 - The Bizarre Bone Church At Kutna Hora, Near Prague, Czech Republic, Where Everything Is Made Out Of Human Bones

817-413104 - The Bizarre Bone Church At Kutna Hora, Near Prague, Czech Republic, Where Everything Is Made Out Of Human Bones

1113-89956 - Whale Bone Sculpture, Stanley, East Falkland, Falkland Islands

1112-478 - Muskox (Ovibos moschatus) skull, Halvo, Northeast Greenland, Polar Regions

1112-482 - Muskox (Ovibos moschatus) skull and vertebrae, Myggebukta (Mosquito Bay), Christian X's Land, Northeast Greenland, Polar Regions

1113-60635 - Museum of Local History, Keitum, Sylt, Schleswig-Holstei North Sea, Germany

1113-45387 - Scrimshaw art, graven whale tooth, near Horta, Faial island, Azores, Portugal

1113-41950 - Whale Jaw Bone as entrance to the main house in the Museum, Carl-Haeberlin-Friesenmuseum, Wyk, North Sea Island Foehr, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

1113-40742 - Skeletons of dinosaurs at Berlin Museum of Natural History, Invalidenstrasse, Berlin-Mitte, Berlin, Germany, Europe

1113-4139 - A sea shell covered hill with bone, New Zealand

1113-877 - Bone carver at work, Ua Pou, Marquesas, Polynesia, Oceania

857-48412 - Camel hooves on display on a Esfahan butchery, Iran

857-33742 - Marine Scientist Dan DenDanto works on the ribs of a 45' sperm whale articulation at the whaling museum in Nantucket.

857-19765 - Thermal bathers in Copahue, Argentina at the El Chancho (the pig) lagoon. Mud is supposed to be good for bone and arthritis.

857-19766 - Thermal bathers in Copahue, Argentina at the El Chancho (the pig) lagoon. Mud is supposed to be good for bone and arthritis.

857-9026 - A polar bear jaw dries in the high arctic sun awaiting the foreign hunter who took it during a paid hunt.

857-6 - Skulls and bones are scattered inside of a Tellem burial cave in Pegu, Mali

1112-186 - Whale skeleton, Fernandina Island, Galapagos Islands, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ecuador, South America

1196-29 - Nepal. Sonam & boom praying at charnel grounds. Humla. Vajrayana is tantric mahasiddha, lives fearlessly in terrifying places like remote jungles charnel grounds. nyingma lamas perform ritual at cremation grounds. lama rattles damaru, a small ritual drum to have origins in - shamanism. damaru, used as a tantric device to summon gods ward evil spirits, once made from human skull bones dried human skin as a reminder of impermanence of body. other lama, boom blows a kangling, a human thigh-bone horn. kangling is used in exorcism is capable of gods demons. Traditionally, best bones a kangling come from brahmans, particularly sixteen-year- brahman girls-or from tigers

1196-219 - Nepal. Ritual, sonam/boom. Lobsangs cremation. Humla. traveler reached of journey! In freedom of infinite he is free from sorrow, fetters that bound thrown away, burning fever of life is no more,oesays dharmapada. Lobsang having spent whole life preparing moment of death, finds liberation on february 14, 1986. Extensive ritual follows cremation-traditionally a forty nine period, sonam lama rattles damaru. A small ritual drum to have origin in - shamanism. damaru, used as a tantric device to summon gods ward evil spirits, once made from human skull bone dreid human skin as a reminder of impermanence of body. Boom lama blows a kangling, a human thigh-bone horn. kangling is used in exorcism is capable of gods demons. Traditionally, best bones a kangling come from brahmans, particularly sixteen-year- brahman girls-or from tigers. On makeshift altar rest chhome, votive lamps filled with butter, cups of water, grains, tormas, holy food made of barley meal decorated with medallions of butter offered to gods. Alone, boom lama continues prayers of deceased

1196-100 - 11th generation practicing amchi tsampha ngawang shows dragon bone used treating broken bones sticks to tongue. He treats patients throughout kali gandaki region is very active with training other amchis from over tibet, nepal mongolia

817-383132 - Charnel of Capela dos Ossos or bones chapel, in the Franciscan monastery Evora, town delcarated World Heritage by UNESCO Coimbra District Alentejo Portugal

817-383131 - Charnel of Capela dos Ossos or bones chapel, in the Franciscan monastery Evora, town delcarated World Heritage by UNESCO Coimbra District Alentejo Portugal

817-383133 - Charnel of Capela dos Ossos or bones chapel, in the Franciscan monastery Evora, town delcarated World Heritage by UNESCO Coimbra District Alentejo Portugal

816-3382 - Face and body painted local tribes celebrating the traditional Sing Sing in Paya, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Pacific

817-375979 - Hot Springs, South Dakota - The Mammoth Site displays mammoth bones approximately 26,000 years old, left as they were discovered in a former sinkhole

817-375973 - Hot Springs, South Dakota - The Mammoth Site displays mammoth bones approximately 26,000 years old and, in the exhibit hall, a full-sized mammoth replica

817-375975 - Hot Springs, South Dakota - The Mammoth Site displays mammoth bones approximately 26,000 years old, left as they were discovered in a former sinkhole

817-375972 - Hot Springs, South Dakota - The Mammoth Site displays mammoth bones approximately 26,000 years old

817-375978 - Hot Springs, South Dakota - The Mammoth Site displays mammoth bones approximately 26,000 years old, left as they were discovered in a former sinkhole

978-229 - Various types of billfish. Uncontrolled fishing in Ecuador.

1036-217 - Upper and lower jaw bones (+ one rib) of a blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) at an old whaling station. BBC Broadcaster John Craven for scale. Snaefellsness Peninsular, Iceland.

1036-216 - Upper and lower jaw bones (+ one rib) of a blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) at an old whaling station. Snaefellsness Peninsular, Iceland.

909-205 - Whalebones - relicts from early whaling in the Deep South. Wiencke Island, Antarctic Peninsula

1036-215 - Risso's dolphin skeleton (Grampus griseus). Isle of Mull, Scotland

1036-218 - Beluga grave yard at an old whaling station on Spitsbergen. Svalbard.

1024-337 - Street dog sitting in rubbish eating a bone, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India

1024-14 - Orange Sea Lichen (Caloplaca marina) on whale bone, Devon, UK

921-791 - Whalebone Alley grand vista, female tourist standing on cliff face, Itygran Island (Bering Sea) Russia, Asia. MORE INFO: Whale Bone Alley was discovered by Soviet archaeologists in 1976, but has remained untouched since and little is known of this place. There is a long double line of bowhead whale bones -- jaws and ribs -- running parallel along the shore for hundreds of yards. Many of the bones, especially the enormous jaw bones, are still standing, propped up by lichen-covered rocks. The location is thought to have been used in about 1300 as a ceremonial site, for a men's secret society or feasting site.

921-701 - Whalebone Alley, Bowhead whale bone, Itygran Island (Bering Sea) Russia, Asia. MORE INFO: Whale Bone Alley was discovered by Soviet archaeologists in 1976, but has remained untouched since and little is known of this place. There is a long double line of bowhead whale bones -- jaws and ribs -- running parallel along the shore for hundreds of yards. Many of the bones, especially the enormous jaw bones, are still standing, propped up by lichen-covered rocks. The location is thought to have been used in about 1300 as a ceremonial site, for a men's secret society or feasting site.

921-703 - Whalebone Alley, Bowhead whale bones, Itygran Island (Bering Sea) Russia, Asia. MORE INFO: Whale Bone Alley was discovered by Soviet archaeologists in 1976, but has remained untouched since and little is known of this place. There is a long double line of bowhead whale bones -- jaws and ribs -- running parallel along the shore for hundreds of yards. Many of the bones, especially the enormous jaw bones, are still standing, propped up by lichen-covered rocks. The location is thought to have been used in about 1300 as a ceremonial site, for a men's secret society or feasting site.

921-699 - Whalebone Alley grand vista, female tourist standing on cliff face, Itygran Island (Bering Sea) Russia, Asia. MORE INFO: Whale Bone Alley was discovered by Soviet archaeologists in 1976, but has remained untouched since and little is known of this place. There is a long double line of bowhead whale bones -- jaws and ribs -- running parallel along the shore for hundreds of yards. Many of the bones, especially the enormous jaw bones, are still standing, propped up by lichen-covered rocks. The location is thought to have been used in about 1300 as a ceremonial site, for a men's secret society or feasting site.

921-702 - Whalebone Alley, female tourist sitting on bowhead whale bone, Itygran Island (Bering Sea) Russia, Asia. MORE INFO: Whale Bone Alley was discovered by Soviet archaeologists in 1976, but has remained untouched since and little is known of this place. There is a long double line of bowhead whale bones -- jaws and ribs -- running parallel along the shore for hundreds of yards. Many of the bones, especially the enormous jaw bones, are still standing, propped up by lichen-covered rocks. The location is thought to have been used in about 1300 as a ceremonial site, for a men's secret society or feasting site.

921-700 - Whalebone Alley, female tourist standing around still intact extremly old inuit elder grave, skeleton still present. Itygran Island (Bering Sea) Russia, Asia. MORE INFO: Whale Bone Alley was discovered by Soviet archaeologists in 1976, but has remained untouched since and little is known of this place. There is a long double line of bowhead whale bones -- jaws and ribs -- running parallel along the shore for hundreds of yards. Many of the bones, especially the enormous jaw bones, are still standing, propped up by lichen-covered rocks. The location is thought to have been used in about 1300 as a ceremonial site, for a men's secret society or feasting site.

921-704 - Whalebone Alley, female tourist standing between bow head whale rib bones, Itygran Island (Bering Sea) Russia, Asia. MORE INFO: Whale Bone Alley was discovered by Soviet archaeologists in 1976, but has remained untouched since and little is known of this place. There is a long double line of bowhead whale bones -- jaws and ribs -- running parallel along the shore for hundreds of yards. Many of the bones, especially the enormous jaw bones, are still standing, propped up by lichen-covered rocks. The location is thought to have been used in about 1300 as a ceremonial site, for a men's secret society or feasting site.

921-9 - Whale Bone Alley, tombs. Lorino, Siberia, Chukotskiy Peninsular, Russia

921-810 - Whalebone Alley grand vista, high altitude flora, Itygran Island (Bering Sea) Russia, Asia. MORE INFO: Whale Bone Alley was discovered by Soviet archaeologists in 1976, but has remained untouched since and little is known of this place. There is a long double line of bowhead whale bones -- jaws and ribs -- running parallel along the shore for hundreds of yards. Many of the bones, especially the enormous jaw bones, are still standing, propped up by lichen-covered rocks. The location is thought to have been used in about 1300 as a ceremonial site, for a men's secret society or feasting site.

979-2056 - Crabeater seal (Lobodon carcinophaga) skull on the beach on Bird Island, Antarctica

1004-108 - Cuttlefish bone Sepia officinalis, Jersey, British Isles

979-7919 - Snow-covered whale bones on Jougla Point, in Port Lockroy at the western end of Wiencke Island, Antarctica, Southern Ocean

979-8166 - Svalbard reindeer antlers (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus) on the gentle plains of Talaveraflya on the south shore of Borentsoya. in the Svalbard Archipelago, Norway

979-5121 - A view of the abandoned bowhead whaling station with bones strewn about in Hornsund (Horn Sound) on the southwestern side of Spitsbergen Island in the Svalbard Archipelago, Barents Sea, Norway.

979-8055 - A view of the abandoned bowhead whaling station with bones strewn about in Hornsund (Horn Sound) on the southwestern side of Spitsbergen Island in the Svalbard Archipelago, Barents Sea, Norway.

979-8052 - A view of the abandoned bowhead whaling station with bones strewn about in Hornsund (Horn Sound) on the southwestern side of Spitsbergen Island in the Svalbard Archipelago, Barents Sea, Norway.

979-8053 - A view of the abandoned bowhead whaling station with bones strewn about in Hornsund (Horn Sound) on the southwestern side of Spitsbergen Island in the Svalbard Archipelago, Barents Sea, Norway.

979-7096 - Views of the Jougla Point, Antarctica. Jougla Point is located in Port Lockroy at the western end of Wiencke Island

979-7458 - Snow-covered whale bones on Jougla Point, in Port Lockroy at the western end of Wiencke Island, Antarctica, Southern Ocean

1004-112 - Cuttlefish bone. UK (RR)

979-5122 - A view of the abandoned bowhead whaling station with bones strewn about in Hornsund (Horn Sound) on the southwestern side of Spitsbergen Island in the Svalbard Archipelago, Barents Sea, Norway.

979-8167 - Svalbard reindeer antlers (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus) on the gentle plains of Talaveraflya on the south shore of Borentsoya. in the Svalbard Archipelago, Norway

979-8054 - A view of the abandoned bowhead whaling station with bones strewn about in Hornsund (Horn Sound) on the southwestern side of Spitsbergen Island in the Svalbard Archipelago, Barents Sea, Norway.

911-2367 - Whale bone marking the shaman's grave on Shishmaref, a tiny island between Alaska and Siberia in the Chukchi sea, home to around 600 Inuits (Eskimos, United States of America, North America

911-357 - Seal meat being butchered by an Inuit man in Ilulissat in Greenland, Polar Regions

920-2153 - Alligator skull, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, South America

911-3568 - A cuttlefish bone on a public beach in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Middle East

911-252 - Seal meat being butchered by an Inuit man in Ilulissat in Greenland, Polar Regions

911-356 - Seal meat being butchered by an Inuit man in Ilulissat in Greenland, Polar Regions

911-359 - A whale bone arch and old vats for rendering down whale blubber in Ilulissat, Greenland, Polar Regions

911-3382 - A border collie dog chewing a bone

817-326732 - Viking Era Human Skeletal Remains at Archaeological Site, Skagafjordur fjord, Northern Iceland

817-315975 - Archaeological excavation Stone burial cist skull at Upper Largie timber circle prehistoric site at Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland

817-312969 - Church of S Francisco, Evora, Portugal, Europe

817-261945 - Whalebone ivory scrimshaw art showing whaling ship Nantucket Whaling Museum, Nantucket Island, Cape Cod Massachusetts, USA

817-261948 - Scrimshaw whalebone ivory art Carved model of whaling ship in the Whaling Museum, Nantucket, off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA

817-208775 - Bone Chapel Capela dos ossos, Ingreja de Sao Francisco, Evora UNESCO World Heritage, Alentejo, Portugal

817-208776 - Bone Chapel Capela dos ossos, Ingreja de Sao Francisco, Evora UNESCO World Heritage, Alentejo, Portugal

817-93819 - Fossil bird, Eocene epoch, Green River formation, Wyoming, USA

817-93591 - Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) male adult, 11.000 yrs old.

817-66943 - Biomechanics: researchers developing exoskeleton intended for people suffering from muscular weakness in the lower limbs, Fatronik Foundation, Research Technology Center, Donostia, San Sebastian, Gipuzkoa, Euskadi, Spain.

817-66942 - Biomechanics: researchers developing exoskeleton intended for people suffering from muscular weakness in the lower limbs, Fatronik Foundation, Research Technology Center, Donostia, San Sebastian, Gipuzkoa, Euskadi, Spain.

809-3483 - Passover celebration dishes, Paris, France, Europe

817-9622 - Fossil Snapping Turtle (fam, Chelydridae), Eocene epoch, Wyoming, USA

807-44 - Altar, Day of the Dead, Patzcuaro, Michoacan state, Mexico, North America

801-124 - Detail of figurines on sale for the Day of the Dead celebration, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico, North America

801-123 - Detail of figurines on sale for the Day of the Dead celebration, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico, North America

801-122 - Detail of figurines on sale for the Day of the Dead celebration, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico, North America