| 21. | And a longer hyoid bone means it needs to extend further up behind the skull when retracted.
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| 22. | Some hummingbirds which also need long tongues for reaching into flowers also have massively elongated hyoid bones.
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| 23. | It is attached at the rear to the hyoid bone, situated below oral level in the pharynx.
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| 24. | The rare presence of the hyoid bone also yielded some significant data pertaining to Selam s species.
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| 25. | Coroner Harold Kade concluded that due to a broken hyoid bone in her throat, Kupcinet had been strangled.
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| 26. | The part of the tongue that extends past the skull are actually the horns of the hyoid bone.
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| 27. | The entire superior edge of the thyroid cartilage is attached to the hyoid bone by the thyrohyoid membrane.
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| 28. | During the trial, pathologists testified hyoid bones are broken far more often in manual strangulations than during hangings.
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| 29. | :It thus follows that if you wanted a longer tongue, you will also need a longer hyoid bone.
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| 30. | Like cormorants but unlike other birds, darters use their hyoid bone to stretch the gular sac in display.
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