Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The human outer ear may ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists studying the ear bones in spring-run chinook salmon found out that the fish leave fresh water for the ocean at ...

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

When saltwater fish long ago evolved to live in fresh water, many of them also evolved a more sophisticated hearing system, including middle ear bones similar to those in humans. Two-thirds of all ...

Research by the Biodiversity Research Center and Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University in Taiwan, has linked intermediate-depth fish populations and diversity to ocean temperatures ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The middle ear of humans evolved from fish gills, according to a study ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES — Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery about the origins of the human outer ear, revealing that this distinctive mammalian feature evolved from an unexpected source: fish gills.

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 ...

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 ...

My goldfish hates when people tap on his tank. The tapping sound he hears in the water is loud and scary. I talked with my friend Rikeem Sholes about how fish hear. He’s a fish scientist who studies ...