SA The mere mention of Leonardo da Vinci evokes genius. We know him as a polymath whose interests spanned astronomy, geology ...

The Italian Renaissance artist created groundbreaking depictions of humans at a time when the inner workings of the body ...

A mechanism that activates specific muscles in our ears is a leftover from our evolutionary past, back when our ancestors depended more on their hearing for survival.

Evolution has largely deprived us of our ability to swivel our ears, but those vestigial muscles still activate when we ...

“The exact reason these became vestigial is difficult to tell, as our ancestors lost this ability about 25 million years ago, ...