This frame was load-bearing, meaning that the steel skeleton would support the building's weight, not its walls.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

Each coral polyp releases a hard calcium carbonate skeleton that serves as a base.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

The first sculpture that greets visitors looks like the skeleton of a huge whale.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

One huge discovery was the nearly complete skeleton of a male mammoth.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

A skeleton is a flat kind of sled.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

These are bobsleigh, skeleton and luge.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

Thirteen won gold medals. Britain,which will host the Summer Olympics in London in 2012, won only one medal, a gold by Amy Williams in women's skeleton.

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

In the end,all there will be is a giant puddle of water, the bronze skeleton and plaques a kind of testimony to the crisis of climate change.

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

Katie Koczynski - a former U.S.skeleton competitor - said Friday that she had an idea that Demong might pop the question, but when it happened she was really surprised.

VOA: standard.2010.02.27

inside,a bronze skeleton modeled on a full-size male polar bear.

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

Yes,you can see horns." These 500 to 1000-year-old cave paintings are young compared to the skeleton of Ardi, an upright hominid more than four million years old discovered in Ethiopia's Great Rift Valley .

VOA: standard.2009.12.14

That's how long it took for an international team of scientists to excavate and analyze the fossilized skeleton of a 4.4 million year old human ancestor, Ardipithecus ramidus, which was discovered in Ethiopia.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24