The vertebrate ear is a remarkable structure. Tightly encapsulated within the densest bone of the skeleton, it comprises the smallest elements of the vertebrate skeleton (auditory ossicles) and gives ...

FEW problems in morphology have aroused more interest than that of the origin of the ear ossicles. It is a familiar fact that the Mammalia differ from all other gnathostomes in having a chain of three ...

Archaeologists from the University of Bradford have examined ear ossicles taken from the skeletons of 20 juveniles, excavated from an 18th and 19th century burial ground in Blackburn. They were chosen ...