Baby born with a tail (vestigial tail)!!
This is a birth defect in which the tail bone fails to regress during the development process of the embryo. It's rare but real. Doctors were stunned when a baby in rural Mexico was born with a "true tail" 5.7 centimeters long – a case that's one in a million. A baby girl was born with a tail covered in skin and hair that was 5.7 centimeters long. Her birth stunned doctors at the rural Mexican hospital who delivered her via C-section with no discernable health problems or abnormalities – apart from a tail containing muscles and nerves. The baby had seemingly no history of exposure to any infections or radiation and both its parents were healthy, as noted in the case details published in the Journal of Pediatric Surgery. The baby's tail measured 5.7 centimeters in length and was 3-5 millimeters in diameter. The hair and skin-covered tail contained nerves and the baby would cry when it was pierced with a needle. After an X-ray of...