To test the functioning of the muscles, researchers recruited 20 people without hearing problems. They used electromyograph, ...

A muscle that we thought served no purpose beyond enabling some people to wiggle their ears is actually active when we are ...

If you can wiggle your ears, you can use muscles that helped our distant ancestors listen closely. These auricular muscles ...

Summary: Humans have vestigial ear muscles that once helped our ancestors focus on sounds. New research shows these muscles still activate when we strain to hear in noisy environments. Scientists used ...

Trendy as they may be, prolonged use of high-decibel earphones and earpods is fast emerging as the main cause behind an alarming rise in the incidence of ear infections that can lead to a decline in ...

“The exact reason these became vestigial is difficult to tell, as our ancestors lost this ability about 25 million years ago, ...

Andreas Schroer, the lead researcher from Saarland University in Germany, explained that it's thought our ancestors lost the ...

Muscles only believed to be used to wiggle our ears actually enable people to listen more intently, reveals new research.

Learn more about the auricular muscles, which activate when we wiggle our ears, and apparently, when we listen to several sounds at once.

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