After years of neglect, scientists say they've finally found the female snake's sex organ

It took more than a century, but scientists finally found it – the female snake's clitoris.

A new study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Journal on Wednesday revealed that after years of scientists studying the genitalia of male snakes and incorrectly identifying the females' sex organ, researchers proved that the female genitalia not only exists, but could play an important role in longer and more frequent mating.

"Across the animal kingdom female genitalia are overlooked in comparison to their male counterparts," Megan Folwell, a Ph.D. candidate at Australia's University of Adelaide and the study's lead author said. "Our study counters the long-standing assumption that the clitoris (hemiclitores) is either absent or non-functional in snakes."