A research paper by scientists at Beijing Friendship Hospital develop a systematic approach for automated ossicular-chain ...

Anthropologists could shed new light on the earliest existence of humans. The study analyzed the tiny ear bones, the malleus, incus and stapes, from two species of early human ancestor in South Africa ...

As Stephen Jay Gould once put it, we have an earful of jaw. The small, sound-conducting bones of our inner ears – the incus, malleus, and stapes – got their start as jaw bones in our distant ancestors ...

The fossil of a new Cretaceous mammal species found in Northeast China's Liaoning province. [Photo/cas.cn] BEIJING -- A new study shows that the middle ear structure of modern mammals began to evolve ...

The story of how we developed our ability to hear is one of the great examples of evolution in action. Because the first animals to crawl out of the water onto the land would have had great difficulty ...

An artist illustration of two "small mice", also known as Microtherulum oneirodes, based on the mammalian fossil discovered in Northeast China's Liaoning province. [Photo/chinanews.com] A new study ...