The muscles helped change the shape of the pinna, or the shell of the ear, funneling sound to the eardrums. The post Study ...

Our auricular muscles are vestigial, remaining part of our bodies while losing their function – moving the pinna, the outer ear – as evolution took its course.“The exact reason these became ...

Many scientists have assumed that these so-called auricular muscles are obsolete, even if they do enable ear wiggling. But in 2020, Daniel Strauss at Saarland University in Germany and his ...

The auricular muscles appear to activate when humans are trying to listen to competing sounds, not just when wiggling the ears. The findings are detailed in a study published January 31 in the ...

Ancient ear-wiggling muscles kick on when people strain to hear. That auricular activity, described January 30 in Frontiers in Neuroscience, probably doesn’t do much, if anything. But these ...

Together, these movements create what we recognize as ear wiggling. While everyone has auricular muscles, only a small number of people can consciously flex these muscles to wiggle their ears.

Auricular (ear) acupuncture uses tiny beads to stimulate nerve endings on the outer ear. SWNS. After three months, the men lost an average of 4 inches off their waist and reduced their body fat ...

When the ear seeds on these auricular acupoints are massaged, they may help address physiological and psychological symptoms like inflammation, pain, stress, and fatigue, according to the ...

Auricular hematoma, if neglected, results in deformities of the outer ear; the deformed ear is called cauliflower ear. The terms auricular hematoma and cauliflower ear are used interchangeably in ...

Ear seeds are closely related to acupuncture and acupressure. Learn more about their potential benefits, how to use them, and the research behind them.