This figure illustrates the EMG responses of the superior (MH, GH) and inferior (TH, SH, StH) hyoid muscles during swallowing in a chronically instrumented dog. These muscles are capable of putting ...
The 165-million-year-old fossil of a tiny, shrew-like animal shows the earliest example of modern hyoid bones—the ones that provide the ability to swallow food—in mammal evolution. The hyoid bones of ...