The Mystery Of Fronts – Anatomy By Reason

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74 – February, 2026

By Wayne Cavanaugh

Take two fingers, starting at the top of your shoulder, and trace the bone that runs horizontally from the top of your shoulder blade (scapula) to the bone (sternum) that sits vertically in the center of your rib cage. That horizontal connecting bone is your clavicle, less formerly known as the collar bone. They are easy to find and see because, unlike most bones, clavicles are not covered in muscle; they are only covered by skin. They are also the only horizontal bones in our body. Most important, however, clavicles connect our arms to our torso. Why is it important to know that humans have a collar bone that actually connects our shoulders to our torso? Because dogs do not.

Orangutans have tremendous strength and flexibility in their shoulders. They can extend their arms, grab a tree limb with one hand, support their hundreds of pounds of wonderfulness with the other, and hoist themselves up to a higher limb. They, of course, have some pretty impressive collar bones holding it all together. Dogs do not.

In fact, dogs don’t have any bones to connect their shoulder blades to their body. Instead, they are attached with just muscles and ligaments. Think about that for a minute. The dogs entire front is attached to its torso, but not by bones. How important, then, is the placement, angle, and balance of the front assembly to make this particular attachment as efficient as possible?

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74 – February, 2026

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