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Maryland, Apr 6 (The Conversation) Everyone has one, but you might not know much about it. Here biologist Sarah Leupen, who teaches human and comparative animal physiology, explains the ins and outs of belly buttons. Also Read | Hindu Temple Vandalised With Anti-India Graffiti in Canada’s Windsor, Police Launch Probe and Release CCTV Video. 1. Why do I even have a belly button? Your belly button, or navel – clinically, your umbilicus – is the permanent scar left from where your umbilical cord connected your circulatory system, when you were a fetus, to the placenta. Fetuses don’t breathe, eat or…