One of the most important steps in the evolution of modern mammals was the development of highly sensitive hearing. The middle ear of mammals, with an eardrum and several small bones, allows us to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. artist's illusrtation of one thrinaxodon walking towards a burrow. another thrinaxodon is sticking its head out. Modern mammals ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers who scanned its skull and ran digital simulations found that the creature most likely had a primitive eardrum in its ...

One of the most important steps in the evolution of modern mammals was the development of highly sensitive hearing. The middle ear of mammals, with an eardrum and several small bones, allows us to ...

One of the most important steps in the evolution of modern mammals was the development of highly sensitive hearing. The middle ear of mammals, with an eardrum and several small bones, allows us to ...

In 1975, near the base of South Africa’s Oliviershoek Pass, paleontologist James Kitching discovered the final resting place of a small, shuffling mammal that had perished some 250 million years ...

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Sensitive hearing may have evolved in mammal ancestors far earlier than scientists once believed. By modeling how sound moved through the skull of Thrinaxodon, a 250-million-year-old mammal ...