Danish artist Thomas Dambo creates giant wooden trolls from recycled materials to promote environmental awareness.

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Killer whales are one of the most intelligent animals; only humans have a larger brain relative to their body size, according to the study.

Chimpanzees at a sanctuary in Zambia have been found to have developed the “seemingly pointless” behavior of dangling blades of grass from their ear holes and their behinds, according to a new study.

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How did human ears evolve? Writing in Nature, Thiruppathy et al. 1 report that many of the same genetic elements (genes and enhancers) are activated during the formation of human external ear ...

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.

Wiggling your ears might be more of a pub party piece than a survival skill, but humans still try to prick up their ears when listening hard, researchers have found. Ear movement is crucial in many ...

To test whether humans still use auricular muscles — which once helped move our primate ancestors’ ears to funnel sound — scientists attached electrodes to the sides of people ...