Middle ear injury: The middle ear has small bones that assist in passing sound. The impact of a water balloon can break these bones, making it more difficult to hear. Inner ear injury: Inner ear ...

While popular myth suggests that snakes can unhinge their jaws in order to swallow objects larger than the width of their body, they actually have a specialized system of bones and ligaments ... snake ...

The brain may play a role in helping the ear regulate its sensitivity to sound and compensate for hearing loss by sending a signal to a structure in the inner ear ... eardrum and bone into the ...

Yes — through the bones in our heads. Believe it or not, you don’t actually need the outer and middle parts of your ear to hear sound, because you’re not technically “hearing” anything.

A first-generation American born to Cameroonian parents, Xang grew up on Michael Jackson and 50 Cent. But he didn’t start taking music seriously until he graduated from high school and theo, a ...

A study of the inner ear bones of Neanderthals shows a significant loss of diversity in their shape around 110,000 years ago, suggesting a genetic bottleneck that contributed to Neanderthals' decline.

In 2018, researchers led by Gabriel Prieto, an anthropologist then working at the nearby National University of Trujillo, announced the discovery of the bones ... condors and snakes; there are ...

They are divided into three portions: the outer ear, the middle ear, and the inner ear. Each has an intricate structure of bones, nerves, and muscles. Just like other parts of the body, the ears can ...

This is what has happened to the vestibular system of pumpkin toadlets. The vestibular system is the series of tiny bones and tubes in the inner ear that help vertebrates balance. The tubes, called ...