Remember that skeleton hanging in the front of your classroom? In some schools, those were actual human remains. We used science to figure out the story behind one of them.

School's mystery skeleton is buried after more than 40 years in the classroom The boney frame will be buried, but its identity is a mystery, with tests ongoing to discover if it was a man or a woman ...

A lot of classroom skeletons, in high schools, universities and medical schools, are real. My high school in Erie, Pa., has one; it's been hanging in the back of the art room for years.

In many U.S. schools, the human skeletons hanging in biology or art classrooms were actual remains. Here's the origin story of one set of bones in an Erie, Penn., high school.

Remember that skeleton hanging in the front of your biology — or art — classroom? It's possible those bones are not plastic, but actual human remains. A lot of classroom skeletons, in high schools, ...