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 ...

Scientists have traced the evolutionary origin of humans' outer ears to the gills of ancient fish through a series of gene-editing experiments. When you purchase through links on our site ...

Though the rule has been widely observed, scientists do not know the reason. One theory was that fish gills were unable to keep up with the fish's oxygen demands in warmer water, which holds less ...

In a scientific first, researchers in Japan have ... 13 managed to push their tail out of the fish's gill and nine made a ...

Their scientific name, Betta splendens, combines two languages: Malay for “enduring fish,” and the Latin ... hatchlings rely on their gills, but adults gulp air and capture the oxygen from ...

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 gills themselves—which fish use to breathe underwater—did ... s College London and was not involved in the research, tells Scientific American’s Viviane Callier.

Some vendors at the fish market here are applying a red coloured substance onto the gills of the fish for it to look fresh. Attracted by their “freshness”, a number of customers are paying ...

Humans' outer ears may have evolved from the gills of prehistoric fish, a new study finds. Gene-editing experiments indicate that cartilage in fish gills migrated into the ear canal millions of years ...