An older man presses his fingers to the side of his head, next to his ear. To test whether humans still use auricular muscles — which once helped move our primate ancestors’ ears to funnel sound — ...

These auricular muscles helped change the shape of the pinna, or the shell of the ear, funneling sound to the eardrums. Millions of years ago, our ancestors stopped using them, so humans ...

But for a 21-year-old woman from Dharan, Nepal, the eerie sound ringing in her ear was indicative of something much more serious — a parasite. The woman arrived in an otorhinolaryngology ...

In something straight out of a horror movie, a woman found a creepy crawly lurking inside her ear after losing her hearing. The 21-year-old woman, from Nepal, went to the doctor in the city of ...

The muscles that enable modern humans to wiggle their ears likely had a more important job in our evolutionary ancestors. . | Credit: Khmelyuk/Getty Images The little muscles that enable people to ...

From rawpixel.com via Freepik Tens of millions of years ago, our ancestors could swivel their ears to pick up sounds, much like cats and dogs do today. Humans lost that ability over time ...

A 21-year-old woman became dizzy and hard of hearing before doctors found a parasite in her ear. J A Uppendahl via Unsplash Most people have experienced a kind of ringing or buzzing in their ears ...

Recent research conducted at Saarland University in Germany revealed that humans also move their ears in response to sound — at least to some degree. When we strain to catch what someone is ...

An ecologist shares his passion for parasites. From their vital roles in nature, to strange super powers and extraordinarily complex life cycles, parasites are natural wonders worthy of protection.

“However, we have been able to demonstrate that the neural circuits still seem to be present in some state, [that is] our brain retained some of the structures to move the ears, even though they ...

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Across the street from a small creek that runs below the Westchester Bluffs in Playa Vista, Wallis Annenberg PetSpace is ...