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 ...

The muscles helped change the shape of the pinna, or the shell of the ear, funneling sound to the eardrums. The post Study ...

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 ...

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.

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We can’t move our relatively rigid human ears this dramatically. And yet, humans still possess ear-moving muscles, as those of us who can wiggle our ears on demand know.

Despite Being Pretty Much Useless, These Ear-Wiggling Muscles Still Attempt To Work Do your ears hang low, do they wiggle to and fro? In the latter case, that’s thanks to a so-called “neural ...

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 ...

They are still used by roughly 10 to 20 percent of people with the fun ability to wiggle their ears. However, these vestigial muscles might be used more than scientists once believed.

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Scientists previously thought the muscle used to wiggle your ears was essentially useless. But new research has found it activates when humans are listening carefully to something.