Because some of the ear’s structure involves bones, much of the evolution of the ear can be followed through the fossil record. The evolution of the mammalian ear is well documented and makes a nice ...

The cochlea houses the cell bodies of the cochlear nerve within a region called the spiral ganglion. Nerve cells (neurons) in ...

The inner ear is divided into two fluid filled chambers - one inside the other. Figure 3 illustrates the basic organization of both the organs of hearing and balance. The fluid in the two chambers ...

In order to reduce these reflections and maximize the transfer of sound energy from the air filled environment to the fluid filled inner ear, land animals evolved external ears as sound collectors and ...

Sensory structures in your inner ears detect head and body movement. The vestibular nerve carries that information from your ...

But whether it's the sound of chickens or my beautiful voice, it all enters your ear through the cochlea, a shell-like structure in the inner ear. Inside the cochlea there are over 16,000 hairlike ...

Welcome, class, to the fascinating subject of today’s lesson: the human ear. This big thing on the side of the head is called the outer ear. It’s shaped a bit like a funnel, which helps it ...

A team of researchers led by SNSB paleontologist Gertrud Rößner has discovered a new prehistoric dolphin species. Analyses of ...

According to the research, the inner ear structure indicates whether a species descended from dog-like animals or animals resembling cats. A distinctive angle between two parts of the inner ear is ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Scientists discovered that a certain lizard has a strange structure in their inner ear that allows the critter to sense lower vibrations than previously thought possible.

Having watched his father suffer from hearing loss, from an early age Graeme Clark wanted to “fix ears”. In 1977, while ...