Karin Limburg, a professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, peers at a screen showing blown-up images of tiny stones in fish ears, which Limburg uses to trace a fish's ...

A tiny white sliver inside the heads of fish could hold evidence of a century’s worth of humans wrecking the environment: atomic bombs, overfishing, even climate change. Fish ear bones, also known as ...

Fossilized fish ear stones—known as otoliths—can reveal far more than previously thought. In a recent study, a team of paleontologists from the University of Vienna demonstrated that a refined ...

Where do young fish hang out? Consult their ear stones. Also known as otoliths, ear stones help fish orient themselves. As a fish grows, it takes minerals such as calcium from its environment and ...

Otoliths, or ear bones, are constantly and permanently recording the conditions a fish is experiencing at any time. Where do young fish hang out? Consult their ear stones. Also known as otoliths, ear ...

Fish otoliths record information on fish metabolism; analyses of old and new otoliths can therefore provide new knowledge about how different species of fish adapt to new conditions, including climate ...

Fish species that are both economically and ecologically important in South America live mysterious lives. Scientists know relatively little about the thousands of fish species living in the world’s ...

Fish species that are both economically and ecologically important in South America live mysterious lives. Scientists know relatively little about the thousands of fish species living in the world's ...

Fish fossils that are about 23 million years old give unprecedented insight into the evolutionary history of the gobioid order, one of the most species-rich groups among the modern bony fishes. Fish ...

In an astounding revelation, scientists have unearthed an ancient fish species with a hearing mechanism strikingly similar to ...

SENDAI—Sendai locals Keisuke Saito and Junko Abe each found and consumed 100 different fish species in their quest to gain the highest-level certification for their “gem” collections. The Miyagi ...

The ear is much more than a hearing device, as both doctors and laymen were sharply reminded last week by the repercussions of what happened in Colonel John Glenn’s inner ear when he “spun in” and ...