It turns out that the flexible cartilage of fish gills bears a close correspondence to the cartilage in the mammalian outer ear, the visible part of the ear. To be sure, flexible cartilage ...

New research has highlighted a fascinating link between human outer ears and the gills of ancient fish. Gene-editing ...

Gills and mammalian ears bear little resemblance ... did in a tour-de-force comparative genomic study that included a fish, an amphibian, a reptile, a mammal and even a horseshoe crab (Limulus ...

The unique feature: employing membrane technology, it extracts oxygen from seawater—much like a fish’s gills. Ocean gliders can autonomously navigate the ocean for several weeks. Their sensors ...

This made us wonder whether the cartilaginous outer ear may also have arisen from some ancestral fish structure.” The first clue toward cracking this mystery was the team’s discovery that gills and ...