They may be called ear bones or auditory ossicles.
But when she gets down to the level of the ear bones, even her microscope is not powerful enough to guide her easily.
Remarkably, the stapes, or middle ear bone, remains intact.
Look for problems of the middle ear bones and the auditory nerve.
It is also believed that they developed a fully mammalian jaw and also had the three middle ear bones.
Mammals are unique in having three ear bones, which allow for finer detection of sound.
Remarkably, it has been possible to study the ear bones, which shows how well some of the fossils are preserved.
She could feel the sound in her ear bones, and, from the way Piemur was pressing behind his ears, he felt it as well.
The researchers in both studies made use of a tiny ear bone found in fish larvae to help trace their whereabouts.
Spoken so loudly, the deep notes reverberate harshly on my ear bones.