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It turns out the human ear got off to a fishy start. Literally. A fascinating new study reveals that the mammalian outer ear ...

Have you ever wondered why our ears look the way they do? That soft, curved shape we rarely think twice about might actually carry a hidden story– one that traces all the way back to life under the ...

Researchers used powerful tech to analyse thousands of individual cells at once, considering which genes are active and how DNA is organised within each cell. The outer ears that sit on the sides of ...

Mudskippers break the rules of fish biology by breathing through their skin, walking on their fins and thriving on land where ...

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 ...