Earwax, medically known as cerumen, is a substance naturally produced by glands in the ear canal. It serves critical functions: Trapping dust, dirt, bacteria, bugs (really!) and other foreign ...

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The auricular muscles, which enabled our distant ancestors to move their ears for better hearing, activate when people try to ...

Millions of years ago, our ancestors were able to move their ears to better capture sounds, much like dogs or cats. But with ...

A study shows that small ear muscles activate when focusing on sounds, hinting at evolutionary traits and aiding hearing ...

Scientists call this feature a “neural fossil”. It’s a remnant of a system that once helped our ancestors pinpoint the ...

Vestigial ear muscles activate during focused listening, revealing a hidden link to our auditory past and evolution.

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 ...

Humans actually have vestigial muscles that activate when listening closely to something, even though people lost the ability ...

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

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