Ear muscles flex when focusing on specific sounds in noisy settings Study links muscle activity to ancestral auditory reflexes Findings may help improve hearing aid ...

These muscles, called auricular muscles, alter the shape of the pinna (the ear’s shell). They are considered vestigial, which means that they have become basically useless to humans over the course of ...

But humans lost this ability around 25 million years ago, as our ancestors became more reliant on vision and complex vocal communication. The muscles responsible for ear movement — known as the ...

Human ear muscles that ­scientists long believed were vestigial – or without function – are actually activated when we are trying to listen hard, a new study has found. Although the auricular ...

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 ...

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 ...

A study reveals that tiny ear muscles flex when people ... for movement in ancestral species, these muscles no longer serve a major function in modern humans but may hold potential for hearing ...