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woodelf | 22:37 Tue 10th Sep 2013 | Animals & Nature
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Does a fly have bones, i.e. a skeleton? Ta Muchly.
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No, a fly doesn't have bones.
Yes, a fly has a skeleton. It is on the outside and mis called an exoskeleton.
They have an exoskeleton, which is like having bones on the outside.

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Many Thanks to You Both, that'll do me fine - and Hi and wavy smile to you B00 - and to you too Gen!
Late to the table, but, interestingly, the exoskelton is constituted from a substance known as chitin, which also makes up the cell walls of fungus and lobsters (among many other things). A long chain glucose whose binding agent is an unpronounceable, multi-syllable chemical descriptor...
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