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 ...

Old Fish Fossil Suggests That Humans Don't Share a Common Ancestor With Sharks, Claim Researchers In 2015, researchers ...

New research has highlighted a fascinating link between human outer ears and the gills of ancient fish. Gene-editing ...

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

‘We think early sharks developed a cartilaginous skeleton because it better suited their lifestyle,’ explains Emma Bernard, our Fossil Fish Curator. ‘Being light and more flexible than bone, cartilage ...

It turns out the human ear got off to a fishy start. Literally. A fascinating new study reveals that the mammalian outer ear has its evolutionary roots in the gills of ancient fish. This surprising ...

This made us wonder whether the cartilaginous outer ear may also have arisen from some ancestral fish structure." The first clue toward cracking this mystery was the team's discovery that gills ...

With a torpedo-like body, they were fast swimmers, relying on speed to hunt primitive fish and other marine creatures. Sharks’ defining feature, their cartilaginous skeletons, was one of the key ...

And all it takes is a fundamental combination of bone, muscle, and cartilage working together to drum against the fish’s swim bladder, producing the loud noise. But sound production isn’t just ...