It turns out the human ear got off to a fishy start ... famous essay 'An earful of jaw,' which laid out how fish jawbones ...

Tiny ear bones help archaeologists piece together the past. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2019 / 08 / 190821082218.htm ...

The ear ossicles are the smallest bones in the human body and are among the rarest of human fossils recovered. Unlike other bones of the skeleton, the ossicles are already fully formed and adult ...

Testing ancient human hearing via fossilized ear bones Published: September 25, 2015 2:01pm EDT Rolf Quam , Binghamton University, State University of New York ...

More information: Alexander Stoessel et al. Morphology and function of Neandertal and modern human ear ossicles, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2016).DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1605881113 ...

Traditionally, the inner ear in fossils could be described through the shape of the bony labyrinth embedded in the temporal bone. Our microtomographic analyses allowed us to virtually reconstruct ...

In a sense, the inner ear bones of the Lufengpithecus is a missing link in the evolutionary history of human locomotion. It all comes down to bipedalism, or the fact that humans walk on two legs.

For the first time, scientists have produced 3D-printed structures made of living cells that are big enough and strong enough to replace human tissues. A bioprinter, described today in Nature ...