Sentences with phrase «mammalian middle ear»
Life is stranger than fiction: the reptilian lower jaw has been subsumed into the mammalian middle ear to enhance the hearing function.
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But the primitive structures of its jaw, related to a primitive middle ear, suggest that Haramiyavia and its relatives were not mammals, and instead occupied a more ancestral position on the mammalian evolutionary tree.