We all have an embryonic tail between the first four and eight weeks of conception; but for a while this tail is absorbed by the body and disappears. In very rare cases, this tail may continue to grow rather than disappear, and the baby may be born with a tail. Just like a baby born in Brazil.
The baby who was born prematurely at 35 weeks without any problems; He was born with a 12 cm long tail with a ball-shaped bump 4 cm in diameter at the end of his body. Doctors who examined the baby said that there was no cartilage or bone structure in the tail and that it was an “extremely rare example of a real human tail.”
In some beliefs and cultures, the human tail is worshiped.
After the ultrasound scan, the experts discovered that the tail was not connected to the baby’s nervous system and therefore did not pose a danger, and they successfully removed the tail from the body in an operation that they did not share any details about how they did it. As stated in the Journal of Peadiatric Surgery Case Reports; Before January 2021, there were no complications during the operation, which took place at the Albert Sabin Children’s Hospital in Fortaleza, a coastal city in eastern Brazil.
There is no information about whether there is any problem in the recovery process of the baby. your tail; It is also unknown whether it was removed on the grounds that it caused discomfort or pain to the baby or at the request of the family. Only 40 documented cases of babies born with a true, boneless tail have been documented throughout history; In contrast, the ‘false tail’ is defined by experts as a protrusion of fat, cartilage and bone below the spinal cord.
When we began to diverge from apes about 20 million years ago, our human ancestors, as well as our ape relatives, lost their tails. In addition, the human tail; It is considered sacred in some cultures and beliefs.
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