Turn into bone or bony tissue; to become riggid or inflexible in habits or attitudes
Hearing Health Foundation
@hearinghealthfn.bsky.social
"Sound waves captured by the ossified lung would have been transmitted to the inner ears via this canal, enabling the animal to perceive sounds underwater." https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1121211 #keeplistening
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michael
@proseandpassion.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
26-Mar-2026
Prehistoric #fish: #coelacanths heard underwater using their #lungs
A study by UNIGE and MHNG shows that 240-million-year-old coelacanths could hear underwater using an ossified lung
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1121211
#science #evolution #hearing #fossils #anatomy
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katherinev
@katweil.bsky.social
Maybe it’d be best to be ossified in an image after all.
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