Humans have many wonderful qualities, but we lack something that’s a common feature among most animals with backbones: a tail. Exactly why that is has been something of a mystery. Tails are useful for ...

While researching AI robotics I came across this interesting robotic human tail developed by researchers at Keio University in Japan a few years ago. The Arque robotic tail aims to augment human ...

WASHINGTON — Our very ancient animal ancestors had tails. Why don’t we? Somewhere around 20 million or 25 million years ago, when apes diverged from monkeys, our branch of the tree of life shed its ...

Ever thought why don’t humans have tails? It certainly is one of the marathon questions that scientists themselves have been racking their brains about for years. Whereas most of the other species ...

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 ...

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(CNN) -- Humans have many wonderful qualities, but we lack something that's a common feature among most animals with backbones: a tail. Exactly why that is has been something of a mystery. CNN — (CNN) ...