The hyoid bone is a small horseshoe-shaped bone located in the front of your neck. It sits between the chin and the thyroid cartilage and is instrumental in the function of swallowing and tongue ...

after all – anthropologists can still differentiate Neanderthals on the basis of their bony anatomy. Among the ways they differed from modern people was a thinner hyoid bone that may have rested ...

Researchers from the University of Texas, Austin and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing compared and contrasted mouth anatomy ... CT scans to determine differences. Dinosaur hyoid bones ...