It is fascinating that the tiny bones in the middle ear appear to have evolved from gills that were no longer needed. Figure 2 shows the path that sound waves follow from the sound source where they ...

The eardrum vibrates in time with the music—really, the frequency of the sound—and transmits that vibration to tiny bones located in what’s called our middle ear. (From there, vibrations are ...

The inner ear may not seem like a particularly bony place, but human ears in fact have three small bones (also known as ossicles): the malleus, the incus and the stapes. While most people would ...

When sound waves hit the eardrum, it vibrates and moves the ossicles, which are the three tiniest most delicate bones in your body. The ossicles move the sound to the inner ear, which sends ...

Transmitting sound via the bones in the skull to the inner ear. Bone conduction speakers rest against the side of the head near the ears, but not in them. Dating back to the 1920s, bone conduction ...

The middle ear is a small cavity that contains 3 small bones: the hammer (malleus), the anvil (incus) and the stirrup (stapes). These pass on the vibrations from the eardrum to the inner ear. The ...

These are the smallest three bones in the human body. They’re called the malleus, the incus and the stapes, and they sit between the eardrum and the entrance to your inner ear, to the place ...