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Learn how starfish got their shape after a complicated evolutionary process, starting with an ancestor that lived 500 million years ago.

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A study led by Cedars-Sinai investigators uncovered a significant uptick in chronic digestive disorders, like irritable bowel syndrome, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Finley Ranson, 14, from England, has a rare condition causing his body to react to all food like a virus. He needs lipids to be infused directly into his heart.

The human muscular system is complex and has many functions in the body, like mobility and stability. Learn more about the muscular system here.

A 500-million-year-old fossil from Morocco, discovered by Natural History Museum scientists, is offering extraordinary new insights into one of evolution's most puzzling transformations: how ...

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But if you simply don’t want to eat shrimp poop (we get it), you have the option to devein your shrimp—removing the dorsal tract, or the digestive system—from the crustacean’s body.