Evolution has largely deprived us of our ability to swivel our ears, but those vestigial muscles still activate when we ...

A muscle that we thought served no purpose beyond enabling some people to wiggle their ears is actually active when we are ...

If you can wiggle your ears, you can use muscles that helped our distant ancestors listen closely. These auricular muscles helped change the shape of the pinna, or the shell of the ear, funneling ...

“The exact reason these became vestigial is difficult to tell, as our ancestors lost this ability about 25 million years ago, ...

A photo shared by a research team shows a feline in a resident's garden in Vučedol, Croatia, with a blind mole rat in its mouth.

The AI model was able to eventually match the rats’ image processing capabilities, but only after using more and more resources and computer power to catch up. Though identifying objects in their ...