About one in five people can wiggle their ears—while the rest watch in non-wiggly envy. But what makes this skill possible for some and impossible for others? Ear movement is controlled by the ...

Y ou won’t notice it, but when you listen hard enough, your ears — or at least the muscles around them — spring into action. Though (most) humans lost the ability to wiggle their ears ...

A “useless” muscle that allows some people to wiggle their ears actually activates when we strain to hear something. Our ape ancestors lost the ability to pivot their ears when they diverged ...

Wiggling your ears is a fun party trick, but it turns out we do it ever so slightly when we're trying to hear better too. Scientists previously thought the muscle used to wiggle your ears was ...

The head tilt exercise is simple: relax your shoulders and gently tilt your head from side to side, bringing your ear closer ...

Muscles only believed to be used to wiggle our ears actually enable people to listen more intently, reveals new research. Researchers have found that the auricular muscles, which helped our ...

Can you wiggle your ears? Apparently around 15 percent of the population can consciously move their ears up and down. Now, ...

Muscles only believed to be used to wiggle our ears actually enable people to listen more intently, reveals new research.