ARE you a navel gazer - does belly button fluff amuse you - have you and inny or an outy; well there's more to it than meets the eye apparently - that little reminder that we were once floating in a fluid environment like an astronaut undergoes fascinating changes after birth, according to Western Sydney University Professor of Midwifery Hannah Dahlen.
What was your very first toy? Dahlen says many ultrasound scans reveal you probably first played with your umbilical cord.
But after your first breath, blood is shunted to the lungs and the arteries supplying blood to the placenta completely close off.
The resultant withered vessels become ligaments - you can actually feel this if you press your belly button and feel a tingling around your bladder and pelvis.
Maybe it's worth a gaze after all.
Those spectacularly ugly lumpy and generally unpleasant beasts from Queensland - no we mean cane toads - apparently have become emboldened the further they travel.
Sydney-based researchers have found behavioural divergence between range-core (those who stay put) and range-edge (those who venture further) cane toads which their studies show have evolved to make the disgusting beasts better invaders.
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