Chimpanzees at a sanctuary in Zambia have been found to have developed the “seemingly pointless” behavior of dangling blades ...

While some animals have rotating ears, many scientists have speculated that humans, at the top of the food chain, don’t need ear functions with up-down precision hearing, “since we’re not ...

Using a combination of 3-D printing and cultured cells, scientists in China grew new ears for five children born with a defect called microtia.

Humans actually have vestigial muscles that activate when listening closely to something, even though people lost the ability to really move their ears about 25 million years ago.

Human ancestors that lived about 2 million years ago had hearing abilities similar to those of chimpanzees, but their ears had some slight differences that made their hearing more humanlike, a new ...

Then they used chimp and human anatomical data to work out what frequencies these ears could pick up. Modern humans and chimps perform similarly below 3 kilohertz, but we have better hearing in ...