Sponsor Message 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 ...

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 ...

When people are trying hard to listen to something, the body seems to do its best to "prick up its ears," even though this ability was lost by our evolutionary ancestors millions of years ago.

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 ...