You 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 millions of years ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Tens of millions of years ago, our primate ancestors responded to noises in much the same way many other mammals do, pricking their ears and deftly turning them towards the sound's source. While a few ...

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 ...