Coleman has studied primate and mammalian auditory systems, comparing how different animals’ ears are tuned and how that relates to structure. “Not every trait that evolved is adaptive. ...

Human ears can’t prick up, but the vestigial ear muscles sure try Humans actually have vestigial muscles that activate when listening closely to something, even though people lost the ability to ...

The first warm-blooded animals appeared abruptly 233 million years ago, according to clues hidden deep inside their ears. Before now, scientists estimated that warm-bloodedness, or endothermy ...

To be sure, flexible cartilage structures take on different jobs in fish and mammals: the gill structures enable fish to breathe while the cartilage in mammals’ outer ears captures sound.

They found that mammal ancestors didn’t develop the kinds of inner ear structures ideal for warm-blooded animals until 233 million years ago-- nearly 20 million years later than scientists had ...

Animal Ears Explain the Evolution of Warm-Bloodedness A study shows that the size of ancient animals' ear canals could crack one of the 'great unsolved mysteries of paleontology. ... Many different ...

Nonhuman animals communicate in many different ways. I've long followed the work of Professor Nicolas Mathevon and was thrilled to learn about his new book The Voices of Nature: How and Why ...

So, how do different animals beat the heat? Turns out they have some weird, clever, and sophisticated methods to keep cool when sweltering heat strikes. Enormous ears ...