The genes that build the cartilage of fish gills were repurposed to build the cartilage in mammals’ outer ears ...

Scientists have traced the evolutionary origin of humans' outer ears to the gills of ancient fish through a series of ...

Gills and outer ears look and function quite differently from one another. They also do not mineralize, which means they are rarely recovered in the fossil record.

New research has highlighted a fascinating link between human outer ears and the gills of ancient fish. Gene-editing ...

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 human outer ear may have arisen from ancient fish gills. | Credit: A. Martin UW Photography/Getty Images (left); Photographer, Basak Gurbuz Derman/Getty Images (right) Humans' outer ears may ...

Two new studies offer insights into the evolution and development of external ears, which appear in humans and other mammals ...

This made us wonder whether the cartilaginous outer ear may also have arisen from some ancestral fish structure." The first clue toward cracking this mystery was the team's discovery that gills ...

The outer ear is unique to mammals, but its evolutionary origin has remained a mystery. According to a new study published in Nature from the USC Stem Cell lab of Gage Crump, this intricate coil of ...