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

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 ...

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

“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 ...

El Planeta' director Amalia Ulman’s sophomore feature revolves around a bungling media crew’s interactions with the residents of a rural town in Argentina.

In her new novel, “We Could Be Rats,” Emily Austin invites readers into a parallel universe which houses the imaginary small ...

Rats perceive the world with a complexity that modern artificial neural networks struggle to match. This is the finding of a ...

Find out why stress can worsen allergy symptoms. Learn about the cellular chain reaction that occurs in the body and how it ...

New research has highlighted a fascinating link between human outer ears and the gills of ancient fish. Gene-editing ...

Zodiac lands on the slithery creature, presenting a marketing nightmare; lose the forked tongue, tone down the scaliness ...