how do your bones connect?

Question: how do your bones connect?
- Keywords:
  body,
  bone,
  muscle
Asked by benroberts to Joe, Juan, Kate, Rory, Rosie on 21 Mar 2014.
- Juan Carlos Lopez-Baez answered on 21 Mar 2014:
  
  Hi @benroberts
  
  Very nice anatomical question. Well your bones connect through what is called connective tissue (very appropriately named). Connective tissue are the tendons and ligaments of your body. The tendons connect your muscles to your bones and your ligaments connect your bones to your bones. Of course, some of your bones are also connected like lego pieces, where one bone fits right into the next. For example your femur (the longest bone in your body that is found on your thigh) perfectly connects to your pelvis, which is the wide bone that makes your hips.

Question: how do your bones connect?