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

Millions of years ago marine animals had hearing organs that allowed them to detect sounds in the water. When land dwelling animals evolved they now had to detect environmental sounds that traveled ...

The inner ear may not seem like a particularly bony place, but human ears in fact have three small bones (also known as ossicles): the malleus, the incus and the stapes. While most people would ...

The eardrum vibrates in time with the music—really, the frequency of the sound—and transmits that vibration to tiny bones located in what’s called our middle ear. (From there, vibrations are ...

Otitis media, or middle ear infections, in humans can be caused ... the large-gauge needle is placed perpendicular to the bone. Constant gentle pressure is applied while the needle is rotated ...

These are the smallest three bones in the human body. They’re called the malleus, the incus and the stapes, and they sit between the eardrum and the entrance to your inner ear, to the place ...

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

Transmitting sound via the bones in the skull to the inner ear. Bone conduction speakers rest against the side of the head near the ears, but not in them. Dating back to the 1920s, bone conduction ...

Bone conduction headphones wrap around the back of your head with a speaker resting on your cheekbone. The audio causes your inner ear bones to vibrate so you can clearly hear your music ...