Evolution has largely deprived us of our ability to swivel our ears, but those vestigial muscles still activate when we ...

“The exact reason these became vestigial is difficult to tell, as our ancestors lost this ability about 25 million years ago, ...

If you can wiggle your ears, you can use muscles that helped our distant ancestors listen closely. These auricular muscles ...

Millions of years ago, our ancestors were able to move their ears to better capture sounds, much like dogs or cats. But with ...

Although modern humans cannot move their ears around in the same way that dogs, cats, and horses do, the findings suggest ...

Vestigial ear muscles activate during focused listening, revealing a hidden link to our auditory past and evolution.

It's not for lack of trying. Researchers from Saarland University in Germany, hearing-aid manufacturer WS Audiology, and the ...

A muscle that we thought served no purpose beyond enabling some people to wiggle their ears is actually active when we are ...

This muscle, known as the auricularis posterior, has been largely dormant in humans for centuries but shows signs of ...

A mechanism that activates specific muscles in our ears is a leftover from our evolutionary past, back when our ancestors depended more on their hearing for survival.

Human ear muscles that scientists long believed were vestigial are actually activated when we are trying to listen hard, a ...

Researchers have found that the auricular muscles, which helped our distant ancestors move their ears to improve hearing ...