Gills and mammalian ears bear little resemblance ... did in a tour-de-force comparative genomic study that included a fish, an amphibian, a reptile, a mammal and even a horseshoe crab (Limulus ...

In a fascinating new discovery, scientists have found evidence suggesting that the flexible outer part of human ears may have evolved from the gills of ancient fish. Yes, your ears– the same ...

Scientists have traced the evolutionary origin of humans' outer ears to the gills of ancient fish through a series of gene-editing experiments. When you purchase through links on our site ...

The human outer ear may have arisen from ancient fish gills. | Credit: A. Martin UW Photography/Getty Images (left); Photographer, Basak Gurbuz Derman/Getty Images (right) Humans' outer ears may ...

“The most rapid point of heat loss for any fish, even a high-performance fish, is always at the gills,” says Mark Royer, a postdoctoral researcher in shark physiology and behaviour at the ...

The middle ear of humans evolved from fish gills, according to a study of a 438 million-year-old fossil fish brain. Scientists discovered the fossil of the braincase of a Shuyu fish. Despite its ...

Known as the Gill Oxygen Limitation (GOL) theory, it has been proposed as the universal mechanism explaining fish size and has been used in some predictions of future global fisheries yields.

“Witnessing the eels’ desperate escape from the predator’s stomach to the gills was truly astonishing for us.” In general, it’s unclear what happens when a fish is swallowed whole by ...

Fish do not have parathyroid glands. Instead they increase their internal calcium concentration by using their gills to take up calcium from the surrounding water. Researcher Professor Anthony Graham ...

Anguilla japonica eels can escape a predator’s stomach through the fish’s gills. Now, scientists are using X-ray videography to watch just how eels accomplish this. The findings are detailed ...