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 ...

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 ...

The outer ears that sit on the sides of your head share an unexpected genetic heritage with the gills of fish. According to research published in the journal Nature by scientists from the University ...

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 ...

Clive Trueman receives funding from UKRI. As a marine biologist, I’ve always found it fascinating to learn about how animals adapt to their habitat. But climate change has made it more important than ...

An artist's reconstruction of the Weberian apparatus in a 67 million-year-old fossil fish. The Weberian structure (gold-colored bones at center) arose from a rib (shown in gray attached to several ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cassandra Brooks, assistant professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, was in the negotiating room when the Ross Sea in Antarctica became the world’s largest marine ...

To scientists studying fish, the bones in salmon ears are like a "travel journal." Yes, fish have ear bones, and yes, people study them. And what researchers have discovered from decoding the messages ...