The larynx is about 4–5 centimeters in length and width. Many conditions can affect it, including laryngitis. This article will explore the location, anatomy, and purpose of the larynx.

Monkeys and apes are unable to learn new vocalizations, and for decades it has been widely believed that this inability results from limitations of their vocal anatomy: larynx, tongue and lips.

a professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City who studies whale anatomy. An illustration of a humpback whale shows its pink, u-shaped larynx. Painting by Patricia ...

Monkeys, which have a vocal tract anatomy that resembles that of humans in the essential articulators (tongue, jaw, lips) but with a higher larynx, could not produce differentiated vocalizations.

Using MRI and computed tomography, Nishimura and his colleagues inspected the larynx anatomy of 43 species from 25 genera. The painstaking work revealed that all of them had a structure that is known ...

Anatomists have known that alligators and other crocodylians vocalize through their larynx for over a century ... a better idea of what the vocal anatomy of long-extinct creatures was like.

And the larynx shows up in all tetrapods — a group that includes animals like birds, reptiles and mammals that descended from four-limbed creatures. The anatomy described in the research varies ...

(Hannah Young Photo) A University of Wyoming graduate student in the Division of Communication Disorders has used innovative technology to create a three-dimensional physical model of a human larynx ...