The content discusses the fundamentals of acoustics, focusing on sound refraction, the anatomy of the ear, and how sound ...

In an effort to better understand how the inner ear can hear the quietest of noises, researchers from Yale University ...

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 ...

The 1.5 million acre Lake Mead National Recreation Area covers “mountains, canyons, valleys and two vast lakes,” the National ...

The muscles that enable modern humans to wiggle their ears likely had a more important job in our evolutionary ancestors. . | Credit: Khmelyuk/Getty Images The little muscles that enable people to ...

Tens of millions of years ago, our primate ancestors responded to noises in much the same way many other mammals do, pricking their ears and deftly turning them towards the sound's source. While a few ...

Scientists have identified a tiny genetic change—present in nearly all living humans but absent in our closest extinct ...

The authors reasoned that many similarities between the appearance of cartilage under the microscope for zebrafish gills and human ears cannot be just a coincidence. Knowing that both the gills ...

I may be in contention for the World’s Most Dismissive Boomer, but I get that record-setting is serious business, writes. So ...

In almost every species, ear movement can be a clue that the animal is trying to pay close attention to something. When people are trying hard to listen to something, the body seems to do its best ...

Stone-Age cannibalism, elephant seals act as deep sea sentinels, rabbits eat their own teeth, and our ears used to be gills.