Getting good images of the middle ear and all its parts is tricky. But it's needed for scientists who want to do things like repair damage or make devices to help aging middle ears function better.
General Physics
Jan 3, 2018
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When we are confronted with the remarkable diversity and complexity of forms among living things—the lightweight and leathery wings of a bat, the dense networks of genes that work together to produce a functional cell—it ...
Evolution
Feb 15, 2017
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with members from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Jena University Hospital and University College London has taken a very close look at the middle ear structure of ...
An international study led by University of Queensland researchers has challenged a long-held idea about how mammals evolved more sensitive hearing than reptiles.
Plants & Animals
Jan 13, 2016
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Before the fluid of the middle ear drains and sound waves penetrate for the first time, the inner ear cells of newborn rodents practice for their big debut. Researchers at Johns Hopkins report they have figured out the molecular ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 25, 2015
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It has long been believed that the hearing bone called stapes, one of the smallest bones in ancestor of mammals, shows no differences between species.
Archaeology
Jul 15, 2015
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A recent study by means of neutron tomography revealed that some forerunners of mammals were already able to hear airborne sound, because these animals already possessed an eardrum at the lower jaw, an impedance-matching ...
Archaeology
Jul 8, 2015
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Researchers at the RIKEN Evolutionary Morphology Laboratory and the University of Tokyo in Japan have determined that the eardrum evolved independently in mammals and diapsids—the taxonomic group that includes reptiles ...
Evolution
Apr 22, 2015
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Lungfish and salamanders can hear, despite not having an outer ear or tympanic middle ear. These early terrestrial vertebrates were probably also able to hear 300 million years ago, as shown in a new study by Danish researchers.
Evolution
Feb 6, 2015
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The most exciting findings covering Mesozoic mammals over the last two decades have come from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods of China. Remarkably preserved fossils across nearly all major groups of Mesozoic mammals have ...
Archaeology
Feb 3, 2015
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