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Bears Ears is named for two adjacent buttes that rise over the landscape in an earlike fashion.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2022
Spector’s team has also invented a way to print ears from 3-D photos, using a protein-based gel that hardens into an earlike structure.
From US News ● Sep. 2, 2014
Because he, or she, or they understood that the underlying concept runs much deeper than the mere notion of an earlike protuberance on the side of a cylinder.
From New York Times ● Dec. 25, 2010
Among the wondrous creatures they spotted: a white octopus with earlike flaps known as a Dumbo octopus, an anglerfish with what look like primitive hands and a spindly 11-armed sea star.
From Time Magazine Archive
One handful went wide, spattering on the grass, but the other caught the creature in the eye, midair, and on the left earlike flame.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
