In an effort to better understand how the inner ear can hear the quietest of noises, researchers from Yale University ...

Imagine an ear falling off a first century Roman statue and you’ll get an idea of what someone found at the Lake Mead ...

Human ears try to move while listening to a sound, a recent study by Saarland University in Germany has revealed. Movement of ears is a common trait in animals, which not only help them focus on a ...

Andreas Schroer, the lead researcher from Saarland University in Germany, explained that it's thought our ancestors lost the ability to move their ears around 25 million years ago. However, it's hard ...

The muscles that enable modern humans to wiggle their ears likely had a more important job in our evolutionary ancestors. . | Credit: Khmelyuk/Getty Images The little muscles that enable people to ...

A mechanism that activates specific muscles in our ears is a leftover from our evolutionary past, back when our ancestors depended more on their hearing for survival.

The human ear has a complex, previously unidentified set of "modes," which Yale physicists have found. These modes place significant limitations on how the ear can detect a remarkable range of ...

Yale physicists have discovered a sophisticated, previously unknown set of "modes" within the human ear that put important constraints on how the ear amplifies faint sounds, tolerates noisy blasts, ...

Research links human outer ears to cartilage in fish gills. Gene-editing experiments confirm evolutionary connection. Findings date back to marine invertebrates 400 million years ago.

Some people experience fluttering sounds in the ears that come and go, while others may hear a continuous sound. Causes include tinnitus, dysfunction of tissues in the ear, and high blood pressure.

To test whether enhancer activity — and therefore gene regulation — is similar in fish gills and human outer ears, Crump and his colleagues inserted human outer ear enhancers into zebrafish ...

That cartilage was similar to the type found in mammals’ outer ear. The researchers observed that gene activity in the human outer ear cartilage was similar to that in the elastic cartilage in ...