For well over a century, doctors dismissed a horseshoe-shaped structure next to the ovary as useless evolutionary junk, but ...

Don’t call it a comeback. For more than a century, an organ in the female reproductive system was written off as useless. However, a recent study indicates that what researchers have called a ...

Ever heard of the “rete ovarii”? If you answered “no”, you have every reason. Even though it was discovered and described in humans over 150 years ago (drawings of it appear in early copies of Grey’s ...

Some body parts actually have no use. The tailbone, a third eyelid and multiple obscure muscles fall into the category of human body parts that are no longer necessary to modern humans. For years, ...