Yes..Your ears evolved from fish gills..

[Magical Realist]

Ever wonder why fish don't have ears? Ever wonder why you don't have gills? The answer is beautifully simple!


"Your ability to hear relies on a structure that got its start as a gill opening in fish, a new study reveals.


Humans and other land animals have special bones in their ears that are crucial to hearing. Ancient fish used similar structures to breathe underwater.


Scientists had thought the evolutionary change occurred after animals had established themselves on land, but a new look at an old fossil suggests ear development was set into motion before any creatures crawled out of the water."

Human Ears Evolved from Ancient Fish Gills

Missing link reveals evolution of fish gills to modern ear.

www.livescience.com

 

[Pinball1970]

Ever wonder why fish don't have ears? Ever wonder why you don't have gills? The answer is beautifully simple!


"Your ability to hear relies on a structure that got its start as a gill opening in fish, a new study reveals.


Humans and other land animals have special bones in their ears that are crucial to hearing. Ancient fish used similar structures to breathe underwater.


Scientists had thought the evolutionary change occurred after animals had established themselves on land, but a new look at an old fossil suggests ear development was set into motion before any creatures crawled out of the water."

Human Ears Evolved from Ancient Fish Gills

Missing link reveals evolution of fish gills to modern ear.

www.livescience.com

Your inner fish!

 

[Pinball1970]

Ever wonder why fish don't have ears? Ever wonder why you don't have gills? The answer is beautifully simple!


"Your ability to hear relies on a structure that got its start as a gill opening in fish, a new study reveals.


Humans and other land animals have special bones in their ears that are crucial to hearing. Ancient fish used similar structures to breathe underwater.


Scientists had thought the evolutionary change occurred after animals had established themselves on land, but a new look at an old fossil suggests ear development was set into motion before any creatures crawled out of the water."

Human Ears Evolved from Ancient Fish Gills

Missing link reveals evolution of fish gills to modern ear.

www.livescience.com

Seriously though I have not come across this. We inherited everything from ancestral apes, then monkeys, then a shrew like animal (Dawkins "Ancestors Tale" is fantastic)
So yes, thanks for all the fish!

 

[Magical Realist]

I always wondered why when I rub the back of my ears and smell my fingers, they smell fishy! The ears remember! lol

 

[Pinball1970]

I always wondered why when I rub the back of my ears and smell my fingers, they smell fishy! lol

Erm. Yuk.

 

[exchemist]

Ever wonder why fish don't have ears? Ever wonder why you don't have gills? The answer is beautifully simple!


"Your ability to hear relies on a structure that got its start as a gill opening in fish, a new study reveals.


Humans and other land animals have special bones in their ears that are crucial to hearing. Ancient fish used similar structures to breathe underwater.


Scientists had thought the evolutionary change occurred after animals had established themselves on land, but a new look at an old fossil suggests ear development was set into motion before any creatures crawled out of the water."

Human Ears Evolved from Ancient Fish Gills

Missing link reveals evolution of fish gills to modern ear.

www.livescience.com

Interesting, though this is dated 2006 so not exactly a new finding. I looked up the paper but could only access the abstract. However my search turned up about half a dozen papers on Panderichthys and what it can tell us about tetrapod evolution. It seems Panderichthys is a very important fossil for tracing a number of tetrapod features, notably the bones of what later became the hand.

 

[Magical Realist]

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

A gill opening is not a gill. Just saying.

 

[Magical Realist]

A gill opening is not a gill. Just saying.

An ear is not just an ear opening either...

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

An ear is not just an ear opening either...

I did NOT say "just".

 

[Magical Realist]

I did NOT say "just".

An ear is not an ear opening either...

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Yep. The mechanism of the ear is at the end of the ear canal. The mechanism of the gills are in the gill pocket.