Who needs an osteologist? (Installment 34)

A high school in Manchester, England, recently discovered that one of their teaching skeletons was made of real bone.  Apparently it's been used for decades in an art class, but everyone thought it was plastic. (Not sure why...)

They decided to rebury the body (again, not sure why...) after a forensic professional told them the person was of Indian ancestry and was a man who died around age 25-30.

Notice anything odd about this skeleton, though?  Hint: those are some reeeeeeeally long arms.  Not even sure how that mistake can be made.

While it's kind of sad that this poor guy got buried like this... it's sure to screw with some future archaeologists. ;-)

[h/t to Lesley Gregoricka for pointing this out]

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Previous Installments of Who needs an osteologist?

• Scholastic News needs an osteologist.
• From Darkness on the BBC needs an osteologist.
• The Iraqi National Museum needs an osteologist.
• Halloween stores need an osteologist.
• The New York Times needs an osteologist.
• Morgan's Cove needs an osteologist.
• Dunstable Baptist Church needs an osteologist.
• Once again, Bones needs an osteologist.
• Tampa Bay History Center needs an osteologist.
• The Archaeological Museum of the Castle of Santo Anton needs an osteologist.
• The Gruppo Archeologico della Val Nure needs an osteologist.
• Polish archaeologists at the site of Kamien Pomorski need an osteologist.
• The South Florida Science Center and Aquarium needs an osteologist.
• GitHub needs an osteologist.
• The Telegraph needs an osteologist.
• University Museum in Chieti-Pescara needs an osteologist.
• NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences needs an osteologist.
• Huffington Post and the Mars Rover need an osteologist.
• PBS and Richard III need an osteologist.
• Abbot House Museum needs an osteologist.
• The Zanjan Museum needs an osteologist.
• National Geographic Channel's "Nazi War Diggers" needs an osteologist.
• BBC/NOVA needs an osteologist.
• The Penn Museum needs an osteologist.
• National Geographic needs an osteologist.
• Acura needs an osteologist.
• The "African" woman in Fairford, England, needs an osteologist.
• Museo delle Grotte needs an osteologist.
• Either NPR or Yale needs an osteologist.
• Yorkshire Museum needs an osteologist.
• Staffordshire University needs an osteologist.
• And, of course, Bones needs an osteologist.