Assertion: cochlea | /r/HasProperty | preserved as fossil
Facets:
value: often
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The research, published April 22, 2008, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences as the featured news item, could be extrapolated to improve understanding of hearing (and the impact of human-made noises) in animals whose auditory abilities remain unknown, such as tigers and polar bears, and even extinct mammals, such as saber-toothed tigers and woolly mammoths, whose cochleas are often preserved as fossils.