The head tilt exercise is simple: relax your shoulders and gently tilt your head from side to side, bringing your ear closer ...

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 ...

Evolution has left humans with many vestigial traits—remnants of once-useful biological features that serve little or no modern purpose.One such example is the muscles around our ears, which in many ...

They're paying close attention. They're concentrating. GREENFIELDBOYCE: So what about humans? People have some vestigial muscles around the ear. They never get used, except by those people who are ...

Ahmad: So, there is a tube made of muscle that connects the back ... and it helps equalize pressure between your ears and the atmosphere around you. Normally the tube is sealed off so nothing ...

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 ...

Can you wiggle your ears? Apparently around 15 percent of the population can consciously move their ears up and down. Now, ...

Researchers at Saarland University published a study in Frontiers in Neuroscience revealing that ancient auricular muscles in humans activate during challenging listening tasks, indicating that ...

They're concentrating. GREENFIELDBOYCE: So what about humans? People have some vestigial muscles around the ear. They never get used, except by those people who are able to deliberately wiggle ...