Choriocarcinoma is a trophoblastic cancer of the placenta (sometimes of the testis or ovary). It quickly metastasizes to the lungs. Douglas Fox ("Why Sex, Really?: To get pregnant, women may need to be 'inoculated' by men first," U.S. News & World Report, Oct. 21, 2002) wrote … "... the f... Read More

Sometimes Mother Nature goes off the deep end when it comes to excess teeth. Shelley Hazan ("232 teeth removed from Indian boy's head," USA Today, Jul. 25, 2014) wrote … "Surgeons in Mumbai have removed 232 teeth from the mouth of an Indian teenager in what they believe may be a world-record... Read More

Adano Ley (Swami Nitty-Gritty) said … "There were once thirty-five teeth for thirty-five vertebrae. You can grow a third set of teeth.” Cases of people growing a third set of teeth are more common than most people suppose. Elephants replace their teeth five times, and sharks continually... Read More

Dermoid cysts grow slowly and on various parts of the body. They contain a variety of different tissues, both ectodermal and mesodermal, including skin, fat, sebum, blood, sweat glands, hair, cartilage, nails, bone, teeth, eyes, and/or thyroid tissue, etc. Caleb Williams Saleeby, M.D. (The Con... Read More

Cancer, in a strange way, is an "evil twin," and death by cancer is "fratricide," according to the Scottish embryologist Dr. John Beard. Dr. Beard discovered that a malignant tumor, given the opportunity to sustain normal development and timing, "would have been the twin brother or sister of the ... Read More