Wipe with a damp washcloth: This is the safest and best method of all. You can't really get inside your ear canal with your ...

The human outer ear may have arisen from ancient fish gills. | Credit: A. Martin UW Photography/Getty Images (left); Photographer, Basak Gurbuz Derman/Getty Images (right) Humans' outer ears may ...

An earache can turn a happy, energetic child into a cranky, uncomfortable one in no time. It's a common struggle—5 out of 6 ...

The outer ear is unique to mammals, but its evolutionary origin has remained a mystery. According to a new study published in Nature from the USC Stem Cell lab of Gage Crump, this intricate coil of ...

It's not for lack of trying. Researchers from Saarland University in Germany, hearing-aid manufacturer WS Audiology, and the University of Missouri have shown the muscles once tasked with moving our ...

If your pup has been scratching their ears more than usual, you may wonder if they have an ear infection. Here are the ...

It turns out that the flexible cartilage of fish gills bears a close correspondence to the cartilage in the mammalian outer ear, the visible part of the ear. To be sure, flexible cartilage ...

Humans' outer ears may have evolved from the gills of prehistoric fish, a new study finds. Gene-editing experiments indicate that cartilage in fish gills migrated into the ear canal millions of ...

Earwax protects and lubricates the ear canal, but sometimes the build up needs to be cleaned. In some cases it collects on the outer ear or sticks to your earbuds. While it’s OK to clean the ...

Humans' outer ears may have evolved from the gills of prehistoric fish, a new study finds. Gene-editing experiments indicate that cartilage in fish gills migrated into the ear canal millions of years ...