The human outer ear may have arisen from ancient fish gills. | Credit: A. Martin UW Photography/Getty Images (left); Photographer, Basak Gurbuz Derman/Getty Images (right) Humans' outer ears may ...

Wipe with a damp washcloth: This is the safest and best method of all. You can't really get inside your ear canal with your ...

Now, we’ve got a new weird ear fact to add to the list: they started out as gills. The outer ear, specifically. That’s the news from a new USC Stem Cell study that was looking into the ...

Humans' outer ears may have evolved from the gills of prehistoric fish, a new study finds. Gene-editing experiments indicate that cartilage in fish gills migrated into the ear canal millions of ...

You might have surgery or radiotherapy, or a combination of both to treat cancer of the outer ear. This page is about treatment for cancer that starts in the skin flap of your outer ear. Although the ...

Humans' outer ears may have evolved from the gills of prehistoric fish, a new study finds. Gene-editing experiments indicate that cartilage in fish gills migrated into the ear canal millions of years ...

The outer ear is unique to mammals, but its evolutionary origin has remained a mystery. According to a new study published in Nature from the USC Stem Cell lab of Gage Crump, this intricate coil of ...

Ear cancer is when abnormal cells in the ear start to grow and divide in an uncontrolled way. Most of these cancers start in the skin of the outer ear. Cancers that develop inside the ear, known as ...

Swimmer's ear is the colloquial name for acute otitis externa, an infection of the outer ear. Though the nickname implies that you get the infection from swimming, you can contract swimmer's ear ...

It turns out that the flexible cartilage of fish gills bears a close correspondence to the cartilage in the mammalian outer ear, the visible part of the ear. To be sure, flexible cartilage ...