A study of the African lungfish reveals that it has a rudimentary ability to detect pressure waves caused by sound. The finding expands our knowledge of how hearing evolved in early tetrapods, the first vertebrates to have limbs and digits.
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Clack, J. The origin of terrestrial hearing. Nature 519, 168–169 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/519168a
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