Published in Nature by researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, the study connects the elastic cartilage in mammalian ears to the same rare tissue found in fish gills. To explore this link, ...

A mechanism that activates specific muscles in our ears is a leftover from our evolutionary past, back when our ancestors depended more on their hearing for survival.

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 ...

The muscles that enable modern humans to wiggle their ears ... front of them. This reflex may be a now-vestigial trait that once helped our ancestors detect sounds from outside their field of view ...

Published in Nature by researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, the study connects the elastic cartilage in mammalian ears to the same rare tissue found in fish gills. To explore this link, ...

Scientists call this a “neural fossil”, a leftover trait from our evolutionary past that refuses to fade away. Yet, despite being functionally obsolete, the muscles around the human ear—the auricular ...

Research links human outer ears to cartilage in fish gills. Gene-editing experiments confirm evolutionary connection. Findings date back to marine invertebrates 400 million years ago.

Human ears try to move while listening to a sound, a recent study by Saarland University in Germany has revealed. Movement of ears is a common trait in animals, which not only help them focus on a ...

Andreas Schroer, the lead researcher from Saarland University in Germany, explained that it's thought our ancestors lost the ability to move their ears around 25 million years ago. However, it's hard ...

A study shows that vestigial ear muscles activate when humans listen intently, mirroring how animals move their ears to ...