The ear canal is also called the external acoustic meatus, outer ear, or auditory canal. It is the part of the ear that starts at the eardrum (between the outer and middle ear) and continues to the ...

A new study describes a type of cartilage that may have been discovered, forgotten and found again at several points in ...

The outer ear is unique to mammals, but its evolutionary origin has remained a mystery. According to a new study published in Nature from the USC Stem Cell lab of Gage Crump, this intricate coil ...

Pull your ear forward and it’ll ping back, thanks to the elastic cartilage it’s made up of. Elastic cartilage is actually quite rare as tissue types go, and a pivotal clue during the team’s ...

An earful of gill: Evolutionary origin of the mammalian outer ear. ScienceDaily . Retrieved January 16, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 01 / 250109125515.htm ...

The cochlear nerve, also known as part of the vestibulocochlear or auditory nerve, is a sensory nerve responsible for hearing. It travels from the cochlea, a spiral-shaped structure in the inner ear, ...

The mammalian outer ear has been traced back to ancient fish gills, revealing its evolutionary origin. Both structures share a rare tissue type, elastic cartilage, which was previously thought to ...

Now, we’ve got a new weird ear fact to add to the list: they started out as gills. The outer ear, specifically. That’s the news from a new USC Stem Cell study that was looking into the ...

Swanwick dog breeder Fraser Hunter has been banned from owning dogs after allowing the cropping of American Bully dogs' ears ...