A newly-discovered vermiform fossil from the Jiangchuan Biota (~554-539 million years old) with holdfast to anchor it to the ocean floor. Scale bar 5mm. Credit: Gaorong Li. These images are for ...
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Your appendix might not be useless after all—and new research says it could be an evolutionary secret weapon
For years, the appendix carried a reputation as the body’s most pointless organ. Doctors often removed it without hesitation, and textbooks labeled it a vestigial structure—something our ancestors ...
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