A research paper by scientists at Beijing Friendship Hospital develop a systematic approach for automated ossicular-chain ...

Anthropologists could shed new light on the earliest existence of humans. The study analyzed the tiny ear bones, the malleus, incus and stapes, from two species of early human ancestor in South Africa ...

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 ...

As Stephen Jay Gould once put it, we have an earful of jaw. The small, sound-conducting bones of our inner ears – the incus, malleus, and stapes – got their start as jaw bones in our distant ancestors ...

The fossil of a new Cretaceous mammal species found in Northeast China's Liaoning province. [Photo/cas.cn] BEIJING -- A new study shows that the middle ear structure of modern mammals began to evolve ...

Paleontologists in China have discovered the fossilized remains of a rodent-like creature that featured an auditory system unlike anything seen before. Introducing Jeholbaatar kielanae, a vole-like ...