Animals such as dogs and rabbits perk up or twitch their ears in response to sound. This movement focuses sound on the animal's eardrum, which is important for accurately identifying and ...

Imagine being a paleontologist exploring Utah’s Jurassic-aged rocks. Imagine discovering the bones of a 20-meter-long, 20-ton herbivorous dinosaur. Then consider: How could any beast become so ...

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 ...

Did you know that if you can wiggle your ears, you’re exhibiting signs of a past ability that profoundly assisted our distant ancestors in sharpening their sense of hearing? These muscles, called ...

Muscles only believed to be used to wiggle our ears actually enable people to listen more intently, reveals new research. Researchers have found that the auricular muscles, which helped our ...

When sounds came from behind a participant, the posterior auricular muscles contracted as if attempting to point the ears in that direction. If you can wiggle your ears, you can use muscles that ...

A new study suggests that our muscles for ear wiggling are also active when we listen with lots of effort. (Credit: BLACKDAY/Shutterstock) They wiggle, though they don’t do much else. That’s what ...

The muscles that enable modern humans to wiggle their ears likely had a more important job in our evolutionary ancestors. . | Credit: Khmelyuk/Getty Images The little muscles that enable people to ...

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 ...

Thought to be pretty redundant in modern humans outside of wiggling our ears for a giggle, new research has revealed that certain ear muscles that let animals and our ancient ancestors move their ...