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 ...

Human ears can wiggle as well as produce their own sounds, and now researchers have a better understanding of how these unusual processes work. Since ear wiggling involves complex coordination of ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...