Imagine an ear falling off a first century Roman statue and you’ll get an idea of what someone found at the Lake Mead National Recreational Area in Arizona. Photos of the fossil — yes ...

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 ...

The ear region of its skull is more specialized ... But the important thing is that each fossil whale shares new, whale-like features with the whales we know today, and in the fossil record ...