A further standout feature of the Kashmir skull is the rare preservation of stylohyoids, part of the elephant's intricate tongue-bone (hyoid) apparatus that controls the tongue and throat during ...
Although the skull was as large as that of a human being living today ... The analysis of an inconspicuous bone of a 60,000-year-old Neandertal showed that the hyoid bone of the Neandertal was shaped ...
About 400,000 years ago, early humans in Europe, Asia and Africa lived alongside giant straight-tusked elephants, far bigger ...