Medically reviewed by Sukaina Hasnie, MD Key Takeaways The outer, middle, and inner ear have unique structures that help with ...

Some starfish made of a brittle material fortify themselves with architectural antics. Beneath a starfish’s skin lies a skeleton made of pebbly growths, called ossicles, which mostly consist of the ...

The number and arrangement of the scleral ossicles in the sceloporines are discussed and figured. Fourteen scleral ossicles are present in Sator, Sceloporus, Uta, Urosaurus, and Petrosaurus; twelve ...

FEW problems in morphology have aroused more interest than that of the origin of the ear ossicles. It is a familiar fact that the Mammalia differ from all other gnathostomes in having a chain of three ...

Felix N. Schmidt, Maximilian M. Delsmann, Kathrin Mletzko, Timur A. Yorgan, Michael Hahn, Ursula Siebert, Björn Busse, Ralf Oheim, Michael Amling, Tim Rolvien https ...