That was the case recently when a remarkable discovery from the Copper Age was made during an otherwise routine dig for a new ...

Using electromyography, researchers found that these muscles respond to challenging listening conditions, suggesting an ancient but largely ineffective auditory function. The findings offer new ...

You won’t notice it, but when you listen hard enough, your ears — or at least the muscles around them — spring into action.

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 ...

What it tells us about the past: This marble statuette depicts a dwarf-dancer, which was a common motif in ancient Mediterranean ... in depicting different human body types in the Ptolemaic ...

This reconstructed visage of "Dragon Man" from the Harbin Skull is linked to a group of early humans called the Denisovans.