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

Antarctica has been called the ‘final frontier’ for humanity’s understanding of life when dinosaurs roamed the planet ...

Research links human outer ears to cartilage in fish gills. Gene-editing experiments confirm evolutionary connection. Findings date back to marine invertebrates 400 million years ago.

Scientists have traced the evolutionary origin of humans' outer ears to the gills of ancient fish through ... fossils" that emerged around 400 million years ago, and the discovery suggests our ...

Species like the tuatara, sturgeon, crocodile, hagfish, chambered nautilus, platypus, and jellyfish are all ancient ... fish species, the sturgeon, has survived since over 200 million years ago ...

Evidence of the ancient megaflood known as the Zanclean Deluge, which reshaped the Mediterranean Sea into its current form, has been found in Sicily. The Mediterranean was cut off from the Atlantic ...

A Cretaceous Period bird called Vegavis iaai pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ... Peninsula of the ancient bird named Vegavis iaai dates to about 69 million years ago, approximately three ...

The field of paleo-inspired robotics is opening up a new way to turn back time and studying prehistoric animals.

A 69-million-year-old skull found in Antarctica ... Vegavis was first reported 20 years ago by University of Texas at Austin co-author Dr. Julia Clarke. It was proposed to be an early member ...

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“But here’s an animal, probably a type of fish, that 66 million years ago ate sea lilies that lived ... Such fossils were key to reconstructing ancient ecosystems and could provide important ...