Scientists have made a major leap in ear imaging by using terahertz radiation to see inside the cochlea – an impossibly tiny, ...

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 ...

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.

She complained bitterly to a friend: “He has everything about him but the snakes ... were ear-shattering. She insisted she didn’t live a holy life, but her friends recognized her inner ...

Watch out for that bat behind you,” warned Luca Messina, a civil engineer who moonlights as a speleo-archaeologist with ...

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 ...

The semicircular canals are complex, bony tubes of the inner ear involved with balance. If the bone is absent in a spot, the inner membrane is exposed to the middle ear and pressure changes can cause ...

A conductive hearing loss caused by fluid in the middle ear may be treated with tympanostomy tubes (ear tubes) to restore the child's hearing to normal levels. A conductive hearing loss caused by ...

Neanderthal genetic diversity dropped 110,000 years ago CT scans of inner ear bones show a major bottleneck event Reduced diversity may have weakened their survival chances ...

Narellan Snake Catchers in Australia helped a family in Sydney remove a venomous eastern brown snake from a wardrobe in a ...