Surgeons have successfully removed a rare "human tail" from a 10-day-old baby. On June 18, a medical team at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corp. (GPHC) in Guyana, the country in South America's ...

Human tails, manifesting as caudal cutaneous appendages, have long intrigued clinicians and anatomists alike. These structures, which may be either vestigial remnants of embryonic development or ...

Some human body parts have become useless over the past few million years. These include wisdom teeth, the tail bone, and the muscle fibers that produce goose bumps. Take a look at nine body parts ...