About one in five people can wiggle their ears—while the rest watch in non-wiggly envy. But what makes this skill possible for some and impossible for others? Ear movement is controlled by the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The muscles that enable modern humans to wiggle their ears likely had a more important job in our ...

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 ...

Evolution has largely deprived us of our ability to swivel our ears, but those vestigial muscles still activate when we listen intently, according to new research. Reading time 3 minutes Tens of ...

Humans, and most other mammals, have just four muscles joining their ears to their head. Bats have more than 20, and they use them to execute a precise series of wiggles, swivels, and twitches. "In ...

PLYMOUTH — Graduation time doesn’t bring back a lot of good memories for me. Wait a minute, on second thought, maybe a few. When I graduated high school, there were 691 others in my class at Wyoming ...

Omo is not quite 5 months old, but already the baby male hippo can wiggle both ears at the same time, to the delight of his fans. Omo is a new addition to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado. He was ...

Anyway, let's talk about this video. It's a baby kitten getting bottle-fed, and she cannot stop wiggling her ears. That's it. That's all there is to talk about. If you need more description before ...

Tiny movements in horseshoe pack more information into ultrasound pulses the bats send and receive, helping them locate objects around them. Humans, and most other mammals, have just four muscles ...

Omo is not quite 5 months old, but already the baby male hippo can wiggle both ears at the same time, to the delight of his fans. Omo is a new addition to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado. He was ...