The coccyx, or tailbone, is a vestige of a time when our ancestors had tails. It is the small bone at the base of our spines that currently acts as an anchor to which all of our muscles stick to.

There's a chance you've seen people wiggle their ears and thought it's a neat trick. But that's actually the result of many ...

While people have studied the vestigial muscles of the pinnae—a fancy word for ears—since the early 1900s, no one had yet pulled the information together to come up with a cohesive explanation ...

The tailbone is a bone located at the end of the spine, below the sacrum. Sometimes, however, the embryonic tail doesn't disappear and the baby is born with it. This is a true human tail.

T he little muscles that enable people to wiggle their ears unconsciously flex when we're trying to pick one sound out of a din of noise, a new study finds.

VESTIGIAL organs have long been a source of perplexity and irritation for doctors and of fascination for the rest of us. In 1893, a German anatomist named Robert Wiedersheim drew up a list of 86 ...

'Vestigial' human ear-wiggling muscle actually flexes when we're straining to hear. Clarissa Brincat. Fri, January 31, 2025 at 2:49 PM UTC. 4 min read.