Exposed Bone
Bone penetrating the skin and being exposed to the outside can be both a natural process in some animals, and due to injury:
- A deer's antlers are composed of bone.
- Instead of teeth, the extinct predatory fish Dunkleosteus had sharp edges of hard exposed bone along its jaws.
- A compound fracture occurs when the edges of a broken bone puncture the skin.
- Though not strictly speaking exposed, a bird's beak is primarily bone covered in a layer of keratin over a vascular layer containing blood vessels and nerve endings.
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