Scientists have scanned the skulls of Neanderthals and found the small middle ear ossicles, which are important for hearing, still preserved within the cavities of the ear. To their surprise, the ...

Scientists find the greatest number of small ear ossicles known from Neandertals so far and compare them to the ossicles of modern humans The three bones of the middle ear (hammer, anvil, stapes) make ...

The ossicles are arranged in a special order to perform their job. Directly behind and connected to the eardrum—which is essentially, a large collector of sound—is the hammer.

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 ...

This vibration moves the ossicles, transmitting sound further into the ear. Meanwhile, the Eustachian tubes are thin, mucus-lined passages that help maintain stable pressure in the middle ear.

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 ...

The ossicles move the sound to the inner ear, which sends signals to the brain. Amazing. Sadly, we can't go beyond the eardrum and see all that inner goodness, because we don't want to puncture it.

Ossicles found in fossil remains have shed a great deal of light on mammalian evolution.For instance, a 2017 study in the journal Nature described a mouse-size gliding mammal known as ...

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 ...

A research team led by scientists of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology scanned the skulls of Neandertals and found the small middle ear ossicles, which are important for hearing, ...