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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the 1995 film Waterworld, severe climate change has caused global changes to the Earth’s surface, forcing humans to live on ...

It turns out the human ear got off to a fishy start. Literally. A fascinating new study reveals that the mammalian outer ear ...

To scientists studying fish, the bones in salmon ears are like a "travel journal." Yes, fish have ear bones, and yes, people study them. And what researchers have discovered from decoding the messages ...

WASHINGTON -- Listen up! Carbon dioxide being absorbed by the oceans is having a puzzling effect on fish: Their ears get bigger. Now, that doesn't mean you're going to reel in the Mr. Spock of the sea ...

Fossilized fish ear stones – known as otoliths – can reveal far more than previously thought. In a recent study, a team of palaeontologists from the University of Vienna demonstrated that a refined ...

Fossilized fish ear stones—known as otoliths—can reveal far more than previously thought. In a recent study, a team of paleontologists from the University of Vienna demonstrated that a refined ...

My goldfish hates when people tap on his tank. The tapping sound he hears in the water is loud and scary. I talked with my friend Rikeem Sholes about how fish hear. He’s a fish scientist who studies ...

An artist's reconstruction of the Weberian apparatus in a 67 million-year-old fossil fish. The Weberian structure (gold-colored bones at center) arose from a rib (shown in gray attached to several ...

Cassandra Brooks, assistant professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, was in the negotiating room when the Ross Sea in Antarctica became the world’s largest marine ...