Human ear muscles that scientists long believed were vestigial are actually activated when we are trying to listen hard, a ...

The mere mention of Leonardo da Vinci evokes genius. We know him as a polymath whose interests spanned astronomy, geology, ...

This muscle, known as the auricularis posterior, has been largely dormant in humans for centuries but shows signs of ...

Margao: A human skull and two bones were found on a property opposite govt primary school in Ambaji, Fatorda. The remains were discovered by a person while conducting cleaning work on the unused ...

The human skull found in the Petralona Cave in Northern Greece challenges the Out of Africa theory of the origin of Homo sapiens. Credit: Nadina CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikipedia commons The prehistoric human ...

Learn more about the auricular muscles, which activate when we wiggle our ears, and apparently, when we listen to several ...

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.

Our distant ancestors had several body parts that have become fairly useless over the course of evolution–our wisdom teeth, the tails that are present during the sixth week of gestation, and the ...

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

Summary: Humans have vestigial ear muscles that once helped our ancestors focus on sounds. New research shows these muscles still activate when we strain to hear in noisy environments. Scientists used ...

A team led by Armed Police Force (APF) Sub-Inspector Prakash Dahal deployed at the border seized 38 sets of human skulls and 10 sets of tibia bones from the individual at 7:49 am. KATHMANDU, Feb 2: ...

Bhagalpur: Days after an incident of theft of human skulls from graves at Sakrama village under Sanhoula police station in Kahalgaon subdivision surfaced on Jan 20, a special investigation team ...