There's a bony support inside bird tongues called the hyoid.

头里面有一种叫做骨骨质支撑。

Because the cut to her throat was not made by the windshield.

仔细看放大后骨。

Yeah. None of the hyoid bones were fractured.

是 骨都没有断裂。

If the hyoid bone in the throat was broken, they could assume she was throttled.

如果喉咙里骨骨折了， 他们就以假设她被勒死了。

And all of the cats that have a completely ossified hyoid can purr, but don’t roar.

所有骨完全骨化猫都以发出咕噜声， 但不会吼叫。

Snow leopards don’t have a fully hardened hyoid — they have the more flexible kind that lions do.

雪豹没有完全硬化骨——它们有比狮子更灵骨。

Reptiles just have a simple rod for their hyoid, which gives them a wide but not-very-muscularized throat.

爬行动物骨只有一根简单杆，这使它们喉咙很宽， 但肌肉不是很发达。

And Owen figured a more flexible hyoid was what let a cat’s vocal folds stretch enough for them to roar.

欧文认为更灵骨以让猫声带伸展到足以让它们咆哮程度。

In 2019, a new species of mammaliaform from the Middle Jurassic called Microdocodon was described - and it had a preserved hyoid bone.

2019 年，描述了一种来自中侏罗世哺乳动物新物种，称为 Microdocodon - 它具有保存完好骨。

The cats that do roar don’t have a fully ossified hyoid, meaning that it hasn’t fully hardened into bone, so it’s a lot more flexible.

会吼叫猫没有完全骨化骨， 这意味着它还没有完全硬化成骨头，所以它要灵得多。

The hyoid is a special bone that sits in your throat and is only attached to the rest of your skeleton by muscles and ligaments.

骨是一种特殊骨头，位于您喉咙中，仅通过肌肉和韧带与骨骼其余部分相连。

And it looks like the hyoid of Microdocodon was very similar to the hyoid bones of modern mammals, so it's very likely that Microdocodon could suckle, too.

而且看起来 Microdocodon 骨与现代哺乳动物骨非常相似，因此 Microdocodon 很能也以哺乳。

We have a hyoid bone too, underneath our tongue, but in a woodpecker, it goes out the back of its mouth, all the way around its skull, and ends up between its eyes.

我们也有一个骨，我们头下面，但是啄木？骨从它嘴巴后面伸出，环绕它整个头颅，最后延伸到它两眼之间。