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

Millions of years ago, our ancestors were able to move their ears to better capture sounds, much like dogs or cats. But with ...

Humans lost the ability to move their ears 25 million years ago, but new research reveals their muscles still react when we strain to listen.

Although modern humans cannot move their ears around in the same way that dogs, cats, and horses do, the findings suggest that humans involuntarily tense their ear muscles when listening intently.

A study shows that small ear muscles activate when focusing on sounds, hinting at evolutionary traits and aiding hearing ...

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

Scientists call this feature a “neural fossil”. It’s a remnant of a system that once helped our ancestors pinpoint the ...

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

If you can wiggle your ears, you can use muscles that helped our distant ancestors listen closely. These auricular muscles helped change the shape of the pinna, or the shell of the ear, funneling ...

Humans actually have vestigial muscles that activate when listening closely to something, even though people lost the ability ...

This muscle, known as the auricularis posterior, has been largely dormant in humans for centuries but shows signs of ...