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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

A “useless” muscle that allows some people to wiggle their ears actually activates when ... Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox! We'll also keep you up to date with New Scientist ...

If you hear something interesting, you might prick up your ears. That's a figurative ... except by those people who are able to deliberately wiggle their ears as a party trick.