240-Million-Year-Old Coelacanth May Have Used Lungs to Hear Underwater
More than 200 million years ago, some deep-sea fish may have been listening to their surroundings in an unexpected way — not just with their ears, but with their lungs. A new study in Communications Biology describes ancient coelacanths, a group of fish that lived during the Triassic period, using a lung-like organ to detect…
