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Many individuals with a faint indentation or tiny hole just in front of their ear go through life barely aware of it. It’s subtle, about the size of a freckle or the head of a pin, and usually doesn’t ...

WASHINGTON -- Listen up! Carbon dioxide being absorbed by the oceans is having a puzzling effect on fish: Their ears get bigger. Now, that doesn't mean you're going to reel in the Mr. Spock of the sea ...

The middle ear of humans evolved from fish gills, according to a study of a 438 million-year-old fossil fish brain. Scientists discovered the fossil of the braincase of a Shuyu fish. Despite its skull ...

Jaws drop when Kerryn Parkinson tells people she studies fish ear bones for a living. Her parents are amused by her work and her children's friends often give her a stern look and say, "Fish don't ...

To scientists studying fish, the bones in salmon ears are like a "travel journal." Yes, fish have ear bones, and yes, people study them. And what researchers have discovered from decoding the messages ...

Fossilized fish ear stones – known as otoliths – can reveal far more than previously thought. In a recent study, a team of palaeontologists from the University of Vienna demonstrated that a refined ...

Humans' outer ears may have evolved from the gills of prehistoric fish, a new study finds. Gene-editing experiments indicate that cartilage in fish gills migrated into the ear canal millions of years ...