The investigation into disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein's death could hinge on a minute bone in his neck that in the past has shed light on whether a cause of death is a suicide or a murder.

Anatomy of the Hyoid The hyoid is situated at the front, or anterior, part of the neck between the jaw bone and the thyroid cartilage, and is firmly secured to the thyroid cartilage by ligaments.

And while this bone might not come up in day-to-day conversation, the hyoid has been critical to an argument about speech. The osteological horseshoe is an attachment point for muscles of the ...

A flexible bone that helps with chewing may have helped give rise to the Age of Mammals, a new fossil shows.

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 is suspended ...

Medical Examiner 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.

Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy determined the convicted pedophile suffered multiple broken neck bones, according to a report. One of the breaks was to Epstein’s hyoid bone, an injury that experts … ...

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 ...

Jeffrey Epstein's autopsy showed that his hyoid bone broke when he died. This can happen in both suicidal hanging and strangulation.

The hyoid bone and thyroid cartilages can get broken in both hangings and strangulations. It's not, as Baden asserts in his interview on Fox News, the location or number of fractures that matter ...