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Triassic Coelacanths May Have Heard the Ocean with Their Lungs


An analysis of two 240-million-year-old coelacanth fossils suggests a bizarre sensory adaptation: an ossified lung that transmitted sound to the inner ear, offering new clues to how early vertebrates perceived their environment.

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