In what's being hailed as a surgical feat, British doctors claim to have created an ear for a nine-year-old boy, using cartilage from his ribcage.

A team of doctors at Royal Free Hospital in London has performed the six-hour-long operation on Ethan Giles-Bowman -- born without a right ear due to his rare congenital condition called Hemi-facial Goldenhar Syndrome, Daily Mail reported.