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 ...

The findings come from a study of bone tools discovered at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania and dated to around 1.5 million years ago. The discovery joins other finds — such as a 1.4-million-year-old ...

It noted the absence of a hyoid bone, a bone in the throat that is crucial to determination of suicide by hanging. “The article/ligature rope used at the scene did not accompany the body for ...