An ear wiggler himself, Schröer has collected stories of remarkable ear abilities, such as people who feel their ears moving toward a sound and people who use their ear movements in daily life. “They ...

You won’t notice it, but when you listen hard enough, your ears — or at least the muscles around them — spring into action.

A muscle that scientists previously thought was useless activates when we're listening really hard to something, according to ...

The auricular muscles, which enabled our distant ancestors to move their ears for better hearing, activate when people try to ...

But people do have certain muscles around the ear that never get used, except by those people who are able to deliberately ...

Do your ears hang low, do they wiggle to and fro? In the latter case, that’s thanks to a so-called “neural fossil”.

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

A new study suggests that our muscles for ear wiggling are also active when we listen with lots of effort. (Credit: BLACKDAY/Shutterstock) They wiggle, though they don’t do much else. That’s what ...

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

But people do have certain muscles around the ear that never get used, except by those people who are able to deliberately wiggle their ears as a party trick. Recently, Hackley and some colleagues ...