How we're using fish ear bones as 'time capsules' of past river health
- Written by Morgan Disspain, Archaeologist and Adjunct Researcher, Southern Cross University
An image from 1886 showing a group of Indigenous Australians posed around the lower Murray River in flood. national_library_of_australia_commons/flickr , CC BYFish have ears. They also have ear bones, known as otoliths. Recent research has focused on otoliths of fish from Australia’s inland waters. These unique structures act as a kind of...