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Animals

Many bilaterians have a combination of circular muscles that constrict the body, making it longer, and an opposing set of longitudinal muscles, that shorten the body; these enable soft-bodied animals with a hydrostatic skeleton to move by peristalsis. The remaining animals, the great majority—comprising some 29 phyla and over a million species—form the Bilateria clade, […]

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