Picture this: a wriggling fish, swimming in ancient seas, whose jawbones would one day transform into the sophisticated ...

The ear is much more than a hearing device ... Glenn hit his head so hard that shock waves went rippling through his temporal bone. Since the inner and middle ears are contained in a cavity ...

It is fascinating that the tiny bones in the middle ear appear to have evolved from gills that were no longer needed. Figure 2 shows the path that sound waves follow from the sound source where they ...

Extinct amphibians probably rested their large heads on the ground and detected vibrations in the substrate by conducting sound waves through the bones of the jaw and other structures of the skull to ...

Anewly discovered mammal fossil may give clues to how bones in the middle ear evolved from jaw bones, according to a study published in Science yesterday (December 5). The malleus, incus, and ...

Cells are sensitive to many forms of stimuli including light and heat, but little is known about the cellular response to acoustic pressure—a.k.a. sound. A new study suggests that cells can indeed ...

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We detect sounds because inside our ears we have parts that work ... vibrating and these vibrations are passed to three small ear bones – called the hammer, anvil and stirrup.