The genes that build the cartilage of fish gills were repurposed to build the cartilage in mammals’ outer ears ...

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

Researchers have discovered a new type of tissue, a soft and flexible ‘fatty cartilage’ that could revolutionize the ...

Scientists have traced the evolutionary origin of humans' outer ears to the gills of ancient fish through a series of ...

Two new studies offer insights into the evolution and development of external ears, which appear in humans and other mammals ...

The scientists were able to incorporate enhancers that help form the elastic cartilage of the human outer ear into the genomes of zebrafish . Remarkably, the human outer ear enhancers were active ...

This suggests that the outer ear evolved from cartilaginous gills, with the first elastic cartilage possibly arising in ancient marine invertebrates. This summary was automatically generated using ...

For humans, they’re a bit unsightly, they’re made of cartilage yet somehow sneak in three bones, and they get bigger as we age. Now, we’ve got a new weird ear fact to add to the list ...

Unlike bones, which can fossilize and provide clear evidence of evolutionary changes, the outer ear consists primarily of elastic cartilage – a flexible, specialized tissue that rarely preserves in ...

I took out two of my lobe piercings, for example, keeping only small studs rather than statement earrings in my cartilage placements. I am pleased to announce, however, that the 'curated ear' is ...

However, upon digging deeper, Plikus realized that they were a completely new type of fat-laden cartilage cells that formed the pliable lipo-cartilage in body parts like the nose, ear and throat. “At ...