The vertebrate ear is a remarkable structure. Tightly encapsulated within the densest bone of the skeleton, it comprises the smallest elements of the vertebrate skeleton (auditory ossicles) and ...

Fast forward a couple dozen million years and the younger fossil, F. chowi, displays auditory ossicles similar to the ones found in our ears today. These two fossils together provide an amazing ...

Letter Published: 27 January 1962 Homology of Ear Ossicles GUNNAR BERTMAR Nature 193, 393–394 (1962) Cite this article ...

The separation of the auditory ossicles from the jaw—which Mao and Meng have apparently captured a snapshot of with Origolestes —was so valuable that it served as a nexus for mammalian evolution.

The middle ear of modern mammals has three auditory ossicles — the malleus, the incus and the stapes — whereas in reptiles, there is only one cylindrical bone.