Two new studies offer insights into the evolution and development of external ears, which appear in humans and other mammals ...

Scientists have traced the evolutionary origin of humans' outer ears to the gills of ancient fish through a series of ...

The genes that build the cartilage of fish gills were repurposed to build the cartilage in mammals’ outer ears ...

For humans, they’re a bit unsightly, they’re made of cartilage yet somehow sneak in three bones, and they get bigger as we ...

The outer ear is unique to mammals, but its evolutionary origin has remained a mystery. According to a new study published in ...

A new study describes a type of cartilage that may have been discovered, forgotten and found again at several points in ...

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

Discover the fascinating evolutionary story behind the human outer ear, which evolved from fish gills. Learn how nature repurposes genetic blueprints.

This suggests that the outer ear evolved from cartilaginous gills, with the first elastic cartilage possibly arising in ancient marine invertebrates. This summary was automatically generated using ...

The outer ear is unique to mammals, but its evolutionary origin has remained a mystery. According to a new study published in ...