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How tiny fish ear bones can reveal criminal activity

How tiny fish ear bones can reveal criminal activity Biologists in Montana have used forensic geochemistry to determine where illegally introduced carnivorous fish originally came from. read more

Your Inner Ear Started as a Fish’s Jawbone - MSN

The tiny bones inside—the malleus, incus, and stapes (often called the hammer, anvil, and stirrup)—were once part of the jaw joint in ancient fish and reptiles. read more

Lionfish ear-bones reveal a more mobile invasion - ScienceDaily

Lionfish ear-bones reveal a more mobile invasion Date: July 18, 2019 Source: Ecological Society of America Summary: Researchers have little information about how grown lionfish might invade or ... read more

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 probing tiny bones in the ears of fish ... read more

Human Fishing Reshaped Caribbean Reef Food Webs, 7,000-Year-Old Exposed Fossilized Reefs Reveal

A groundbreaking study of 7,000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef food webs: As sharks declined by 75 percent and fish preferred by humans ... read more

Lionfish ear-bones reveal a more mobile invas | EurekAlert!

Researchers have little information about how grown lionfish might invade or move to new waters because tracking small marine organisms poses difficulties. One way to investigate their movements ... read more

What do bones in salmon ears have to do with survival?

To scientists studying fish, the bones in salmon ears are like a "travel journal," telling of how some species of salmon have adapted to survive. read more

This Tiny Fish Makes an Ear-Blasting Screech for Love

This Tiny Fish Makes an Ear-Blasting Screech for Love A rice-grain-size fish screams louder than a jackhammer—and we have a lot to learn from its minuscule brain ... read more

Fish-ear bones offer clues to health of ocean, species

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 ... read more

Chemical tags in ear bones reveal Chinooks' life histories

New research on the Nushagak River – one of the largest Chinook salmon runs in the world – used chemical tags in a fish’s ear bones to tell where it was born and raised. Sean Brennan is a ... read more

Fish ear bones offer clues to health of ocean, species

SEATTLE — 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 ... read more

Lionfish ear-bones reveal a more mobile invasion

One way to investigate their movements, though, is to study their ear-bones. Lionfish ear-bones, or otoliths, grow over time in the way tree-rings do. “Since otoliths have growth rings related to ... read more