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

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

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

Summary: Humans have vestigial ear muscles that once helped our ancestors focus on sounds. New research shows these muscles still activate when we strain to hear in noisy environments. Scientists used ...

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

A study shows that vestigial ear muscles activate when humans listen intently, mirroring how animals move their ears to ...

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.

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