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Human skeletons are the skeletons of human beings. In a world where humans vanished, only the living disappeared, and as such, one of humankind’s most enduring legacies are the dead left behind.
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As is the case with all other animals with internal skeletons, the bodies of deceased humans will eventually have their soft tissue decay away, leaving just their durable bones behind. The final fate of these skeletons then depends on where they happen to be. While some skeletons crumbled into dust, or the tissues were dissolved by chemicals in water and soil, some remained intact inside ossuaries for the foreseeable future. Other skeletons were preserved in the ground for millions of years, eventually becoming fossils for whichever advanced species next emerges to gaze upon. Some skeletons, such as those in New Orleans, would have the soft remains eventually turned into crude oil after being driven half a mile underground over the course of millions of years of ground movement, with the heat and pressure transforming the tissues into the chemical mixture.
At least 100 million years after humans vanish, their bones can still be found as fossils, meaning that any intelligent life that lives on Earth by this time may have a chance at learning about humans in a similar way to how people in the present day study the bones of dinosaurs and other ancient extinct creatures.