A new study describes a type of cartilage that may have been discovered, forgotten and found again at several points in history.

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 ...

A helix piercing is an ear piercing placed through the outer rim of the ear's cartilage ... there will be some throbbing, swelling, and mild bleeding for a few days afterwards.

Scientists have long wondered about the evolutionary origins of outer ears ... They stumbled upon the novel cartilage by chance, while getting ready to look at mouse ear tissue under a microscope.

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 ...