The pistol of a flower is its only protection against insects. The skeleton is what is left after the insides have been taken out and the outsides have been taken off. The purpose of the skeleton is something to hitch meat to. A permanent set of teeth consists of eight canines, eight cuspids, two molars and eight cuspidors. The tides are a fight between the Earth and the moon.
All water tends towards the moon, because there is no water in the moon, and nature abhors a vacuum.
I forget where the sun joins in this fight. A fossil is an extinct animal. The older it is, the more extinct it is. A managerial lion running around the Earth through Africa. A nest of young puppies.