It's worth noting, for the sake of everyone here in the comments on a tl;dr tanget, that the organ is absolutely not new or 'mysterious' in the least. There are

It's worth noting, for the sake of everyone here in the comments on a tl;dr tanget, that the organ is absolutely not new or 'mysterious' in the least. There are a pair of salivary glands at the back of the nose in a place no-one thought to look at them. They were discovered because they accumulated radioactive glucose, like the other salivary glands, to an extent that was visible when a fairly new and sophisticated scanning technique was used. They revealed macroscopic structure upon examination in two cadavers.