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Babies are not mostly cartilage, fetuses are. The reason why they are is because they undergo a process known as endochondral ossification. Basically, the fetus creates an outline of what the skeleton should look like with a hyaline cartilage model. Then this cartilage is replaced with the bone cells which create a bone matrix.

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