[sandbar]

I didn't know we had a tongue bone?

[Red Badger]

I didn't know we had a tongue bone?

Must.......resist.......urge.........to....................

[highball]

I didn't know we had a tongue bone?

Yes. The hyoid bone in your neck supports the tongue.

More information here.

[MineralMan]

I didn't know we had a tongue bone?

Here's the hyoid in a human:

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

I didn't know we had a tongue bone?

If you don't have a human tongue bone, you can't use your tongue for speech, therefore no human language could exist, therefore no advanced intelligence either.

[mountainbunny]

The song, “Dem Bones” could never have the hyoid as a verse, because it’s the only bone that isn’t articulated to another bone somehow. The hyoid bone *isn’t connected to the ____ bone ;-D

And we could never have the level of speech with the hundreds of individual sounds we are capable of without it.

It’s a very spiffy bone.