When people are trying hard to listen to something, the body seems to do its best to “prick up its ears,” even though this ability was lost by our evolutionary ancestors millions of years ago. That’s ...

Thought to be pretty redundant in modern humans outside of wiggling our ears for a giggle, new research has revealed that ...

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

If you hear something interesting, you might prick up your ears. That's a figurative expression, of course. People's ears don't actually move upward. But NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce found that this old ...

Vestigial human ear muscles react to sounds even if the external ear does not move. This could be used to build better earing aids. If you hear something interesting, you might prick up your ears.