2006-11-20 01:04:18 · 12 answers · asked by forest lover 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
because of skin relaxation
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2006-11-23 15:53:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because while bones stop growing sometime in puberty, cartilage keeps on growing. Since your nose and ears are made primarily of cartilage, they keep on growing even after the rest of you is done.
The source I've attached gives more specific information, some that seems to disprove this theory and some that seems to support it. Overall, though, one paragraph talked about an actual study on around 200 men which proved that their ears grew at the rate of 0.22 mm per year. Ear lobes also appear larger as the skin starts to lose elasticity and sags.
2006-11-20 09:06:41 · answer #2 · answered by feistycharley 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is a myth. Untrue totally. If some people appear to have bigger noses, it's more than likely they are active alcoholics with broken blood vessels on/in their noses.
2006-11-20 09:15:24 · answer #3 · answered by Zoey 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I agree that they do...maybe its just the weight of the face after 100 years. no disrespect I love old people-as I will unwilling be one eventually-big nose and all
2006-11-20 09:06:53 · answer #4 · answered by cassiepiehoney 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Gravity pulls all the rest of the skin away from those areas and they don't actually get bigger, everything else shrinks away.
2006-11-20 09:06:06 · answer #5 · answered by Conrey 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
you know that saggy skin we get under our arms and droopy boobs when we get old? Well, same thing with ears and noses...they don't really get bigger, gravity just "pulls" things
2006-11-20 09:08:40 · answer #6 · answered by kimandchris2 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't know why!
but i really dread it!!!
My nose is so big already!!! Wait till i am 70... Yikes!!!
2006-11-20 09:10:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Their heads shrink as they shrivel thats why there are all wrinkly, its just loose skin.
2006-11-20 09:09:15 · answer #8 · answered by The Great Turtle Speaks 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think it's because cartilage never stops growing.
2006-11-20 09:06:40 · answer #9 · answered by Tish 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
fcuked-up gene pool?
feisty charleys got it.
2006-11-20 09:06:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋