Caudal vertebrae are the bones that make up the tails of tailed animals. They range in number from a few to 50, depending on the length of the tail of the animal in question; humans have 3 to 5 fused into a coccyx.
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“When you were a tadpole and I was a fish
In the Paleozoic time,
And side by side, on the ebbing tide,
We sprawled through the ooze and slime,
Or skittered with many a caudal flip
Through the depths of the Cambrian fen,
My heart was rife with the joy of life,
For I loved you even then.”
—Langdon Smith (1858–1908)