This is not the first tail surgery in the country. In 2022, neurosurgeons in the eastern Odisha state operated on the bony tail of a two-month old infant. “Although 26 cases of bony tail have ...

Most flying vertebrates evolved shorter bony tails as they took to the skies ... baby specimens have teardrop-shaped tail vanes. In their teenage years the vane took a kite-like shape and in ...