A recent study compared features of Neanderthals' inner ears across space and time to extrapolate what happened to them tens ...

Neanderthal fossils show a major population drop 110,000 years ago. Researchers link this to reduced genetic diversity.

After thriving for hundreds of thousands of years, Neanderthals disappeared from Eurasia some 40,000 years ago. Today, their ...

Learn how researchers analyzed Neanderthals’ inner ears to understand their genetic history.

A new study by an international team of scholars, including faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York, suggests that Neanderthals experienced a dramatic loss of genetic variation ...

It is widely accepted that results obtained from studying the morphological diversity of the semicircular canals are comparable to those obtained through DNA comparisons. The study focused on two ...

They focused on the semicircular canals, a set of bony tubes in the inner ear that are fully formed at birth. During life, these canals are filled with fluid, helping to maintain balance and ...

There are five sensory epithelia in the balance portion of the inner ear (one for each of the three semicircular canals and two in a chamber where the three canals come together). The nerve fibers ...

It consists of three semicircular canals, each containing crystals. The position of these crystals helps your brain work out the position of your head. You can think of them as being like a system ...