A 64-year-old woman presented with a 4-day history of incessant clicking and rustling sounds in her left ear. On examination, a small spider and its exoskeleton were seen in the ear canal. The New ...

Over 100 million years ago, the chirps of insects known as katydids dominated the sounds of Earth’s nights. Now, fossils reveal what the katydid ears that heard those sounds looked like. Twenty-four ...

An extraordinary insect preserved in amber is opening our ears to a world of communication beyond our hearing. New research on an extinct katydid in the Natural History Museum's collection reveals ...

When 40-year-old Zane Wedding went swimming last week, he left with more than he bargained for -- a cockroach, which burrowed inside his left ear and stayed there for three days. Wedding, who is Māori ...