11. Hatab also had a broken hyoid bone _ the free-floating, wishbone-shaped bone supporting the tongue. 12. The chicken's hyoid bone for example, already extends halfway around the back of the skull. 13. The hyoid bone is expanded and highly convex ventrally. 14. The structure of the hyoid bone can play a role in an animal's ablility to roar. 15. Anteriorly, it is attached to the hyoid bone . 16. The hyoid bone is unusually large, and presumably has a role in the whale's suction feeding. 17. A post-mortem alleged that Hatab had haemorrhaged and suffocated because his hyoid bone had been broken. 18. The hyoid bone is present in many mammals. 19. A state autopsy found Puttorak's hyoid bone intact and ruled his death a suicide by hanging. 20. A large hyoid bone apparatus was found, in 1977 the most complete discovered for any dinosaur.
