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

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

Although modern humans cannot move their ears around in the same way that dogs, cats, and horses do, the findings suggest ...

To test whether humans still use auricular muscles — which once helped move our primate ancestors’ ears to funnel sound — scientists attached electrodes to the sides of people’s heads, and asked them ...

Andreas Schroeer of Saarland University says this audiobook was full of “fun little trivia that people could actually ...

An ear wiggler himself, Schröer has collected stories of remarkable ear abilities, such as people who feel their ears moving toward a sound and people who use their ear movements in daily life. “They ...

They are still used by roughly 10 to 20 percent of people with the fun ability to ... a study co-author and neuroscientist from Saarland University in Germany, said in a statement.

Researchers from Saarland University in Germany ... potentially expanding experiments to evaluate the influence of these vestigial twitches on people with hearing impairments. Radical Study Proposes a ...

Only in the small state of Saarland (1 million inhabitants ... a young party and still do not have a core constituency. Many people do not yet know who they want to vote for, Wagenknecht said.