Hello Explorer, welcome along to a brand new question stuffed episode of the Fun Kids Science

Midweekly. My name is Dan. This is the smartest podcast in the universe. I've won the award,

best podcast in the universe three times. Thank you very much for asking. And well, in this

episode, every week, it's all about your questions, the stuff that you want to know. If you've got

anything sciencey, just lingering in the corners of your mind, flicking at yourselves. Maybe you've

heard something at school and you're thinking, cat, that can't be true.

No way, is that possible? Well, let me do the digging for you. Let me find out. All that you

need to do is to send your question in as a voice note on the free Fun Kids app and at FunKidsLive.com.

You can star in the podcast and I'll solve your question for you. First one this

week, it's from Toby. Do cats have the same bones as humans? Thank you Toby. Do cats have the

same bones as humans? Well, some, Toby is really the answer. Cats and humans are mammals.

So we have the same skeletal structure, but there are some differences in the bones that we have.

We've got the basic type of bones. We've got a skull. We've got a spine that runs up the back.

We've got ribs to protect your lungs. We've got

arm bones, leg bones, a humerus, a radius, an ulna, a fema, a tibia, a fibula in your legs.

The differences, though, well, cats have a longer skull with some different bones in there,

which are adapted for more carnivorous teeth, really.

Cats also have a different sort of clavicle.

That's your collarbone, the ones in between your shoulders.

Ours is quite fixed because we're tall, we're wide, broad-chested, so that needs to be

strong and in place to set your shoulders where they always are.

But a cat's clavicle is almost floating, which is really important. It's kind of free form.

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