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When designing a workout, it's important to move in all of the body's planes. What are they? Here's an anatomy primer to help.

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

Giant ceramic pots made centuries to millennia ago were found to hold human bones, while others held a mixture of seeds and the remains of fish, frogs and turtles.