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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...