Scientists find the greatest number of small ear ossicles known from Neandertals so far and compare them to the ossicles of modern humans The three bones of the middle ear (hammer, anvil, stapes) make ...

Douglas E. Vetter, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at the Tufts University Sackler School of Biomedical Sciences, sounds out an answer to this query. The hammer, anvil and stirrup—also known as ...

Anthropologists could shed new light on the earliest existence of humans. The study analyzed the tiny ear bones, the malleus, incus and stapes, from two species of early human ancestor in South Africa ...

Three bones—among the tiniest in the human body—sit in your middle ear, where they transmit vibrations from the eardrum to the cochlea, significantly sharpening your hearing. Collectively known as the ...

Archaeologists from the University of Bradford have examined ear ossicles taken from the skeletons of 20 juveniles, excavated from an 18th and 19th century burial ground in Blackburn. They were chosen ...

EVOLUTION HAS NO foresight. But occasionally it flukes something ideally suited to develop into something else. Biologists call this preadaptation, and it seems to explain the existence of three small ...

Otosclerosis is one of many hearing disorders found only in humans, affecting the otic capsule. It occurs when the joints between the ossicles in the middle ear become hardened with age. The formation ...

Scientists have scanned the skulls of Neanderthals and found the small middle ear ossicles, which are important for hearing, still preserved within the cavities of the ear. To their surprise, the ...