Earbone Fossil (IMAGE)

Vanderbilt University

Earbone Fossil

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The team, one of the first in the world to examine the ability's origins, used a small CT scanner to look inside a 30-million-year-old ear bone fossil from a specimen resembling Olympicetus avitus.

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Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University

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