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.

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.

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

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

If you can wiggle your ears, you can use muscles that helped our distant ancestors listen closely. These auricular muscles helped change the shape of the pinna, or the shell of the ear, funneling ...

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

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