Quirks and Quarks 'Skeleton Keys' — a new book explores the secret life of bones Writer Brian Switek looks at the sometimes macabre but always fascinating secrets of our skeletons ...

This bone enables humans (and our Neanderthal ancestors) to talk, breathe and swallow. It is very rare to break the hyoid bone, and a finding of fracture in a post-mortem examination may indicate ...

Here are some other facts about the skeleton. 1. Not everyone has 206 bones Textbooks teach that there are 206 bones in the human skeleton as the anatomical norm. But babies are born with over 300 ...

They also include a hyoid, a bone located in the voice-boxthat supports the muscles involved in speech. It is the first time the bone has been found this early in the homonin fossil record.

New Jurassic mammaliaform sheds light on early evolution of mammal-like hyoid bones. Science, 19 Jul 2019: Vol. 365, Issue 6450, pp. 276-279 DOI: 10.1126/science.aau9345 ...

Hyoid bones are rare in the fossil record, but we know that Smilodon fatalis (the saber-tooth tiger) had seven hyoid bones, the same as the modern roaring cats. But that isn’t the whole story.

JURASSIC CHEWER This fossil of the shrew-sized mammal ancestor Microdocodon gracilis, which lived about 165 million years ago, reveals that the shape of the hyoid, a flexible bone that aids in ...

The hyoid bone of today’s birds extends all the way from the back of its throat to the tip of its tongue. It’s this flexible bone that enables birds to stick their tongues all the way out (and ...

Dinosaur hyoid bones, it seems are more like alligators' and crocs' than they are like birds'. They were short, basic and connected to a mostly immobile tongue.