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[personal profile] cmcmck 2024-03-02 12:11 pm (UTC)(link)
7. There was a 19th century conspiracy theory which beieved that humans WERE born with tails but that midwives and doctors conspired to remove them at birth. :o)
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[personal profile] mountainkiss 2024-03-02 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
What would you do with it?
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[personal profile] hairyears 2024-03-04 07:54 am (UTC)(link)
This might actually have been true of the Hapsburgs.

Alas, all modern references focus on the Hapsburg jaw, and I find no reference to protruding coxycces at all.

Perhaps it is an old wives' tail.

[personal profile] anna_wing 2024-03-03 12:58 pm (UTC)(link)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/306921606_Whole_Genome_Sequencing_Identifies_a_Missense_Mutation_in_HES7_Associated_with_Short_Tails_in_Asian_Domestic_Cats


Someone has finally taken a look at the widespread phenomenon of missing or "broken" tails in otherwise perfectly normal and healthy cats. This is widespread in insular Southeast Asia, and has been for long enough that both Stamford Raffles and Darwin took note of it. A cat with a normal, long, straight tail is actually considered rather special. It's completely separate from the Manx gene. The really interesting bit about this paper is that may be two, separate, non-Manx genetic causes of the missing , partial or deformed tails.
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[personal profile] melchar 2024-03-04 10:29 am (UTC)(link)
I loved the Tenacious D cover!
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[personal profile] melchar 2024-03-05 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
Honestly? That would be pretty darned cool.