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Do You Have Darwin's Tubercle? This Curious Evolutionary Hangover May Have Once Helped Us Hear

IFL Science 22 Mar 2025
A vestigial trait is something that an organism has that once served a purpose that over time and the course of evolution has ceased to be useful ... it entirely, rendering it vestigial in modern humans.
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The Warty Octopus Gets Wartier The Deeper It Lives – Why?

IFL Science 19 Mar 2025
Deep in the Pacific Ocean lives a warty octopus ... ADVERTISEMENT ... A baby warty octopus showing off its warts ... One possibility is that they’re a kind of vestigial trait, something that was useful at one time in their evolutionary history but no longer is ... .
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