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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 ...

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 ...

Nanoplastics are the most worrisome plastics for human health, experts say, because the minuscule pieces can take up residence inside individual cells. “Somehow these nanoplastics hijack their ...

Travel to a remote island near Brazil has been banned to all but scientists and the military because of the danger posed by its deadly snakes which can’t be found anywhere else in the world. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Muscles only believed to be used to wiggle our ears actually enable people to listen more intently, reveals new research. Researchers have found that the auricular muscles, which helped our ...

Forget what your parents told you, scratching an itch may be good for you, by boosting your body’s defence against bacteria. Scratching is a paradoxical phenomenon. It can feel nice to run your ...