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    Do any animals have appendixes or any other organs that seem to serve no useful purpose?

    Question #126213. Asked by george48. (Jun 20 12 10:09 PM)


    eyhung

    		Yes. These are known as vestigal organs.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestigial_structure

    Jun 21 12, 1:17 AM
    satguru

    		Dew claws are a good example, they are old digits which have reduced to having no function at all. http://dogstuff.info/dewclaws.html

    Jun 21 12, 10:13 AM
    urbankheki

    		There once had been a prehistoric animal, called Deinotherium, which had two downward curving tusks attached to its lower jawbone. No one knows surely the way this animal used these curious tusks.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinotherium


    Jun 21 12, 2:34 PM

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