Human ears can’t prick up, but the vestigial ear muscles sure try Humans actually have vestigial muscles that activate when listening closely to something, even though people lost the ability to ...

A “useless” muscle that allows some people to wiggle their ears actually activates when we strain to hear something. Our ape ancestors lost the ability to pivot their ears when they diverged ...

Dr. Jaslean Ahuja Michals, a clinical audiologist, recently took to TikTok to break down the potential causes of that persistent ringing in your ears and offer tips about how to keep tinnitus at ba… ...

If you often experience a ringing in your ears or hear sounds that no one else can, you're not alone. According to the U.S. National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders ...

It's important to clean your ears regularly, and how you do it can have a big impact on how clean your ears are. And you definitely don't want to get it wrong if you value your hearing.

Human ears are similar to those of chimpanzees, but small differences mean chimps’ auditory system picks up on high and low frequencies the best, while human hearing is most sensitive to ...