The hyoid in murder cases: This isn't the first time the hyoid has been used to help determine a cause of death. A fractured hyoid is present in approximately one-third of strangulation homicides ...

The hyoid bone helps to support the tongue and elevate the larynx when you talk or swallow. It's the only bone of the body that does not articulate with any other bone.

The hyoid bone is U-shaped and sits at the front of the neck between the lower jaw and the voice box. "The primary function of the hyoid bone is to serve as an anchoring structure for the tongue.

Hyoid ruptures are particularly common among older people who hang themselves, the Post noted. Epstein was 66. Epstein's death came as he was awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.

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 ...

But the hyoid bone is hidden. Even if you’re looking at a study skeleton in a museum or […] Photo by Sandstein, CC BY 3.0. A collection of bird hyoid bones at the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien.

Epstein’s Broken Hyoid Bone Doesn’t Tell Us Much It’s still much, much more likely that he died by suicide than that he was murdered. By Jeremy Samuel Faust. Aug 15, 2019 3:44 PM.

Accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, who hanged himself in a New York City jail, sustained a broken hyoid bone, an official with knowledge of the autopsy told ABC.

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 ...

The fossil’s extremely elongated tongue attachment bones, or hyoid apparatus, suggests that the bird could protrude its tongue from its mouth, much as some present-day birds do to grab hard-to ...