The show Bones does one thing very well: it captures just how fascinating the forensic anthropology field is.

The show dives into the world of forensic anthropology, and while it gets many things right, it also takes plenty of creative liberties. There's always a grain, sometimes a whole handful of truth in a lot of the science that they represent, says paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi to the New Scientist.

"You do at times get moments where Temperance Brennan says: Would you change the tissue depth here? Would you change the tissue depth there?" She continues. "So there is an understanding that is just one possibility, one interpretation of the way that individual would really look" It's fiction, but it does an okay job and it makes us look good and it shows how incredibly interesting the field is." And for that, it deserves much credit.