Animal Adaptation: It's Useless, or Is it?
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Why do Ostriches have wings? They’re vestigial structures and you have a few of those too
Sometimes an animal’s adaptation no longer serves a purpose. It’s called a vestigial structure. What are they and do we humans have any? You bet we do. Find out what some of them are.
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Animal Adaptation: It's Useless, or Is it?
Clip: Special | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
Sometimes an animal’s adaptation no longer serves a purpose. It’s called a vestigial structure. What are they and do we humans have any? You bet we do. Find out what some of them are.
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Science Trek is a local public television program presented by IdahoPTV
Major Funding by the Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation and the Idaho National Laboratory. Additional Funding by Sparklight, the Friends of Idaho Public Television and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.