Prof. Rob Swatski identifies the hyoid bone (Rob Swatski YouTube channel) Well, well, well. From the Washington Post: An autopsy found that financier Jeffrey Epstein suffered multiple breaks in his ...

While conspiracy theorists point to the deceased predator’s fractured hyoid bone as fodder for a supposed murder plot, the only thing it makes clear is how old Epstein was. Special Correspondent If ...

Broken bones found in Jeffrey Epstein's neck are not proof that the disgraced financier was murdered, medical experts said, as some took details of his autopsy to fuel conspiracy theories. The autopsy ...

But the hyoid matters for more than manners. As a sort of structural scaffold for the conduit between mouth and esophagus, this small-but-mighty bone shuttles food that’s already been partially broken ...

The hyoid bone is a U-shaped bone situated at the midline of the neck. During post-mortem, hyoid bone fractures are of medicolegal importance in distinguishing ...

Some of our bones are easy to see. The zygomatic bones that give our cheeks shape, the delicate phalanges of our fingers, and the bony bulbs that are our kneecaps all stand out from beneath the flesh.

Chew on this: Millions of years before the emergence of true mammals, an early ancestor had a tiny, saddle-shaped bone connected to the jaw that was thought to belong to mammals alone. That bone, ...