Researcher Nikolai Konow has been studying the mechanics of chewing. Photo via Brown University. Fish do it. Lizards do it. Cows do it. Get your heads out of the gutter, readers. We’re talking about ...

Dinosaurs are often depicted as fierce creatures, baring their teeth, with tongues wildly stretching from their mouths like giant, deranged lizards. But new research reveals a major problem with this ...

Reconstructions of dinosaurs at museums and theme parks often show their tongues wildly waving — a feature that is incorrect, according to new research led by The University of Texas at Austin and the ...

At the base of your tongue lies one of the more enigmaticstructures in the human body, the hyoid bone. This horseshoe-shapedbone is the only one not directly connected to another. Locateddeep in the ...

Some of our bones are easy to see. The zygomatic bones that give our cheeks shape, the delicate phalanges of our fingers, and the bony bulbs that are our kneecaps all stand out from beneath the flesh.

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 ...

Tyrannosaurus rex may have had many other ways of being rude, but he could not stick out his tongue, research has shown. Like alligators, most dinosaurs had short tongues that were firmly rooted to ...

Long before Chris Pratt was a velociraptor-whisperer in Jurassic World, Julianne Moore got licked by a Tyrannosaurus rex in The Lost World. It’s gnarly in the best way — and also extremely wrong, ...

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Dinosaurs are often depicted as fierce creatures, baring their teeth, with tongues wildly stretching from their mouths like giant, deranged lizards. But new research reveals a major problem with this ...