Lovely, Beastly Bones – Photo Gallery – LIFE

Design is a funny thing — especially when evolution is the designer. Take these 60-year-old photos of animal bones. Perhaps the way that we and our fellow critters appear at the most basic, elemental level — maybe how we look when stripped to the bone — says more about us than we like to admit. Seen in a certain light, and photographed by a pro with the eye of a scientist and the heart of an artist (or vice versa), the bones of animals as varied as fish, bats, elephants, hummingbirds, and humans are uniquely eloquent, speaking to us of life, death, and what we leave behind. Oh, yeah … they also look incredibly, mind-bendingly cool.

Above: The skeletal structure of a bat, photographed by the great Andreas Feininger in September 1951.

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