After more than three decades of collecting fish ear bones for stock assessments, the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development has over 350,000 otoliths in a library.

It turns out the human ear got off to a fishy start. Literally. A fascinating new study reveals that the mammalian outer ear ...

Picture this: a wriggling fish, swimming in ancient seas, whose jawbones would one day transform into the sophisticated machinery of the human inner ear. This isn’t just a story of bones and ...

Within the fine sediments of these ancient reefs, the team discovered thousands of tiny fish ear bones and shark scales, allowing them to reconstruct entire ancient fish communities. The results ...

Therefore, he and his PhD student, Surajit Mondal, in collaboration with Prosenjit Ghosh, Professor at CEaS, turned to otoliths – tiny bones found in the inner ear of fish.

Tiny bones found in the inner ear of fish hold clues to the fish's age, migration patterns, and the type of water that the fish lived in.(Unsplash) Oceans cover three quarters of the Earth's ...

Fossils from 7,000-year-old Caribbean reefs show a 75% drop in sharks and a rise in prey fish numbers and size.

But fish do indeed have ears – inner ear organs that are sensitive to how deep and how fast they're swimming. And in a scientific twist, Parkinson, a research officer with UTS, can determine the life ...

Fish ear bones can reveal seawater temperature millions of years ago Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have now identified a way to estimate ancient seawater temperature by ...

Therefore, he and his PhD student, Surajit Mondal, in collaboration with CEaS professor Prosenjit Ghosh, turned to otoliths — tiny bones found in the inner ear of fish. Like corals, otoliths are ...

Fish ear bones help detect sea temperature: IISc “With this, we are keen to do the same study in the oceans and seas in the Indian sub-continent with local fish species,” Ramananda ...