Sentences with phrase «hear airborne sounds»
«It has not completely lost this ability to sensitively detect ground vibrations through the jaw but has gained some of the modern mammal ability to hear airborne sounds,» Luo adds.
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HEAR YE, HEAR YE: On the phone or otherwise, the process of hearing usually begins when airborne sound waves travel through the ear canal and then hit the eardrum, causing it to vibrate.
Surprisingly, the measurements showed that not only the terrestrial adult salamanders, but also the fully aquatic juvenile salamanders — and even the lungfish, which are completely maladapted to aerial hearing — were able to detect airborne sound despite not having a tympanic middle ear.