How Mammal Jaw Bones Evolved into Ears

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Animal evolution has led to some wild anatomical changes, such as jaw bones turning into...ears? A new fossil has been found that might help us understand how jaw bones evolved into complex middle ears found in mammals! Learn all about it with Hank in this new episode of SciShow. SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Carpentier, Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Mammal Ears https://press.nature.com/cretaceous-fossil-reveals-a-new-pattern-in-mammalian-middle-ear-/17413100 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1792-0 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03605-1 http://www.geo.utexas.edu/faculty/rowe/Publications/pdf/023%20Rowe1996a.pdf https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2016.2416 https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/ar

Published 2019-12-06 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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