#hearing

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TKSST • seethis.tv 🌈🪐✨ @tksst@fediscience.org · Jul 20, 2026

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐘🦻 #Elephants can hear messages sent through ground vibrations from more than 10 km away using bone conduction. A #study found that elephants’ larger middle ear bones transmit low-frequency vibrations to the cochlea more effectively than human #ears. A special #muscle may also let elephants voluntarily close their ear canals, potentially boosting sensitivity to infrasonic #sounds by up to 30 times. 👉 https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/elephants-may-hear-messages-through-ground-vibrations-from-more-than-10-kilometers-away/ #hearing #infrasound #animals #communication #anatomy #science #biology #zoology #wildlife #harvard

Soh Kam Yung @sohkamyung@mstdn.io · Jul 16, 2026

"While we know that seals can hear [in both air and water] what’s long remained a mystery is exactly how they do so, and when this ability evolved. In our new paper, published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, we investigated amphibious hearing in seals to find answers to these questions." https://theconversation.com/seals-have-a-unique-superpower-in-their-ears-and-we-finally-know-how-it-evolved-287072 #Seals #Hearing #Biology