What lives in your belly button
What Lives in Your Belly Button? Study Finds "Rain Forest" of Species! Thousands of bacteria found in navels. By Shannon Fischer for National Geographic News
Rob Dunn and his team of ecologists aren't your average navel gazers. They're professional navel gazers, thank you very much, and their new study details the microbial contents of 60 volunteers' belly buttons.
The upshot? Belly buttons, it turns out, are a lot like rain forests.