Scientists find the greatest number of small ear ossicles known from Neandertals so far and compare them to the ossicles of modern humans ...

The ossicles are arranged in a special order to perform their job. Directly behind and connected to the eardrum—which is essentially, a large collector of sound—is the hammer.

Your ossicles vibrate a little bit whenever you encounter an acoustic stimulus, but your own voice will always sound loud (because of how close your mouth is to your ears), so the ossicles vibrate ...

The number and arrangement of the scleral ossicles in the sceloporines are discussed and figured. Fourteen scleral ossicles are present in Sator, Sceloporus, Uta, Urosaurus, and Petrosaurus; twelve ...

The vertebrate ear is a remarkable structure. Tightly encapsulated within the densest bone of the skeleton, it comprises the smallest elements of the vertebrate skeleton (auditory ossicles) and ...

Whereas reptiles possess a single bone in the ear and multiple lower jawbones, every living mammal possesses multiple ossicles in the ear and a single lower jawbone.

Never before have they been observed in primates other than man”. Cobb2 found no evidence of suprasternal ossicles in the skeletons of sixty-one gorillas, thirty-eight chimpanzees and eight orangs.

Although Opisthocomus shares a derived number of 12 scleral ossicles with cuculid Cuculiformes, the pattern of ossicle overlap differs. Nevertheless, fewer modifications are required to derive the ...

Some starfish made of a brittle material fortify themselves with architectural antics. Beneath a starfish’s skin lies a skeleton made of pebbly growths, called ossicles, which mostly consist of ...

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 ...