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

Humans can't move their ears around in the same way that dogs, cats and horses do. But people do have certain muscles around the ear that never get used, except by those people who are able to ...

In the study, approximately 22% of participants were able to move one ear, while about 18% could move both ears simultaneously. Significantly more men than women were able to move both ears at the ...

Despite still having these scraps of muscles, most humans can’t move their ears at all (similar to how our tailbones no longer connect to tails). Other useless mysteries also remain.

Researchers in Germany and the U.S. found that the muscles once used to move our ears, known as auricular muscles, still activate when we focus on competing sounds, as if trying to revive our ...

Wiggling your ears might be more of a pub party piece than a survival skill, but humans still try to prick up their ears when listening hard, researchers have found. Ear movement is crucial in many ...

By placing electrodes on the ears of volunteers, they observed activation of the auricular muscles when an individual tries to focus on a specific sound, especially in a noisy environment. The ...