View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. The human appendix is a small, muscular, vermiform or worm-shaped organ, averaging around 9cm in length, that is located at the junction of the ...

In our basic biology classes, we were taught about a small organ called the appendix and were told that it is vestigial, meaning it has no function in the body. However, recent studies have ...

To help place the ideal ages provided by respondents in context, we compiled data on when in life people around the world actually get married, have their first child and become eligible for certain ...