Question: Is it possible to rebuild a cow's bones after taking it skin off of it???

Karen answered on 6 Nov 2018:

Yes you can! For example if you wanted to put the cow’s bones in a museum, you could go through a process called “skeleton articulation”, or bone building. You would do this after taking the skin and everything else of using strong chemicals, so that is can stay in the museum for years. This is more commonly done for more really old creatures such as this 200-million year old dolphin-like dinosaur: https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/manchester-dinosaur-expert-helps-rebuild-11102581 Kinda cool! 🙂 Once scientists have completed the bone building it’s easier to try to figure out how the animal behaved when it was alive, so it’s a good first step in palaeontology (the study of really old animals and plants)!