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

A mechanism that activates specific muscles in our ears is a leftover from our evolutionary past, back when our ancestors depended more on their hearing for survival.

Do your ears hang low, do they wiggle to and fro? In the latter case, that’s thanks to a so-called “neural fossil”.

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

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Vestigial human ear muscles react to sounds even if the external ear does not move. This could be used to build better earing aids.