For years, the appendix carried a reputation as the body’s most pointless organ. Doctors often removed it without hesitation, and textbooks labeled it a vestigial structure—something our ancestors ...

For years, the appendix was brushed off as a useless leftover from human evolution. Many of us grew up believing that it served no real purpose and was better off removed at the first sign of trouble.

Bindi Irwin, daughter of late Crocodile Hunter legend Steve Irwin, has revealed she is "finally" healing after having "51 endometriosis lesions" and her appendix removed. 18,685 people played the ...