The semicircular canals are three tiny tubes located in the inner ear. Their primary job is to regulate balance and sense head position. The three semicircular canals—the anterior, lateral, and ...

Armed with that knowledge, the team looked at the inner ear canals in their ancient specimens spanning several hundreds of millions of years. They determined that mammal ancestors first became ...

The semicircular canals tell the brain when a man’s position or posture is changing because of a turning motion. But it is the utricle that responds to acceleration, and the saccule to deceleration.

The first-line treatment for BPPV involves physical therapy exercises to move the ear stones out of your semicircular canals and back into your otolith organs to be reabsorbed, according to 2022 ...

"The semicircular canals, located in the skull between our brain and the external ear, are critical for our sense of balance and position when we move, and they provide a fundamental component of ...

Semicircular canals are tubes in the inner ear which evolved to help hominids keep their balance, and, ultimately, enable them to walk upright — a distinguishing physical feature which separates ...

The canal that sits highest in your ear, the superior semicircular canal, is covered by bone. When you have SSCD, this bone has a hole or very thin place in it. This affects how the sensors react ...

“The semicircular canals, located in the skull between our brains and the external ear, are critical to providing our sense of balance and position when we move, and they provide a fundamental ...

Cold-blooded animals’ ear fluid is cooler and thicker, so it needs wider spaces to travel through, while warm-blooded animals have runnier ear fluid, so our semicircular canals don’t need to ...

More information: Alessandro Urciuoli et al, Semicircular canals shed light on bottleneck events in the evolution of the Neanderthal clade, Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025 ...