Dec 23 2009The Miracle Of Life: Animals In The Womb
Ever wondered what baby animals look like before they're projected out of their mothers' vaginas? Well now you do thanks to National Geographic. So yeah, thanks -- I, uh, think.
Extraordinary Animals In The Womb aired last year, using advances in scanning and imaging technology to trace the gestational paths of animals outside the human family. The documentary footage is actually a combination of digital photography, scans, and computer-generated models. The filmmakers took detailed scans of the animal's wombs, then had the model makers recreate every blood vessel and whisker. The resulting images, while not direct photographs, are, according to the researchers, accurate representations of what goes on inside these creatures' wombs.
Ah, the miracle of life. Reminds me of the time a hippie friend of mine gave birth and then saved the placenta to eat later. Which, HORF HORF HORF HORF HORF. Seriously, you're not a cat, lady. I mean, you ARE a cat lady, just not an actual cat yourself. *meow!* You better cut that shit out.
Hit the jump for several more in utero animals including a penguin, dolphin and several dogs.
Rare In Utero Images Glimpse Animals Inside the Womb [io9]
Thanks to Erin, who would have just wedged a camera up the vagina like the paparazzi do celebrities.
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Reader Comments
1. j - December 23, 2009 1:08 PM
eeeeeeewwwwww!
cool!
2. hsoj spillihp - December 23, 2009 1:11 PM
kinda makes me hungry.
3. Catch22 - December 23, 2009 1:11 PM
like in drawn together
unborn whales are as wise as they are delicious
4. Closet Nerd - December 23, 2009 1:12 PM
Those are some of the most a-maz-a-zing pictures ever..... just sayin
5. naas - December 23, 2009 1:13 PM
EVERY ONE OF THOSE looks delicious
6. Me - December 23, 2009 1:13 PM
This is fucking disgusting, my god
7. asian sensation - December 23, 2009 1:15 PM
drawn together?! GTFO
8. Me - December 23, 2009 1:17 PM
All of this talk about eating babies reminds me of "A Modest Proposal" and is that third one a Furby or a Gremlin?
9. Closet Nerd - December 23, 2009 1:17 PM
Ooooh, maybe you could make a 'placenta bear' from an actual bear placenta?!
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/placenta-teddy-bear-turns-heads/story?id=9043347
10. Asperflux - December 23, 2009 1:19 PM
Long live the robots
11. Closet Nerd - December 23, 2009 1:19 PM
@8 hahaha... great minds think a like
http://www.geekologie.com/2009/12/god_bless_america_monster_truc.php#comment-175210
12. H2-no - December 23, 2009 1:20 PM
I'd still hit it
13. Cinema Obsessed - December 23, 2009 1:21 PM
Pretty amazing, but foetuses of any species aren't just floating with tons of free open space around them. They're all smushed.
14. My name is Pedrofloppytits - December 23, 2009 1:22 PM
I think this link tells us all we need to know, gross!
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15. naas - December 23, 2009 1:22 PM
Clearly we're not all on the same page, so I recommend a FEAST OF THE UNBORN (FOTU) for Closter Nerd & Me. @4 & @6 get your bibs, you're going to want to try this & see how delicious this can be.
Actually it is pretty sick to think of eating but I'd still try it.
@7 you suck, you GTFO
16. KBOTZ - December 23, 2009 1:22 PM
Dosn't #3 look like a bird? Must be the penguin off of Billy Madison. "OHHH NOW I SEE WHATS GOING ON HERE!!"
17. My name is Pedrofloppytits - December 23, 2009 1:23 PM
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sorry about that :/
18. naas - December 23, 2009 1:32 PM
@17 How did you manage to select all, copy & paste that into a comment and submit it on accident Mr floppytits?
19. naas - December 23, 2009 1:33 PM
nevermind, look at how quickly those little robots clean it up
20. My name is Pedrofloppytits - December 23, 2009 1:34 PM
It was supposed to be a link, not sure how a copied the page
21. John - December 23, 2009 1:35 PM
I WANT A FETUS PUPPY
22. LSDiesel - December 23, 2009 1:35 PM
I once took a dump that felt like I was giving birth to a baby shark. Oh ho boy! And he was ANGRY!
23. naas - December 23, 2009 1:35 PM
it's a holiday season & you are forgiven
24. trag - December 23, 2009 1:36 PM
Umm, aren't these uteruses looking a little overly roomy to anyone?
25. AaronZZZ - December 23, 2009 1:38 PM
Placenta pancakes anyone?
26. Closet Nerd - December 23, 2009 1:47 PM
Did anyone ever play the game "Skitchin" on Sega?
There was a song on that game called "Spicy Placenta"..... just sayin
27. Me - December 23, 2009 2:15 PM
@11 wow! that's crazy, @15 i'm down with naas's idea... but i think we should start a restaurant... and not tell anybody what the mystery meat is
28. Closet Nerd - December 23, 2009 2:23 PM
@27 too late
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5AF4W320091116
29. Me - December 23, 2009 2:28 PM
This site (either directly or indirectly) blows my mind on a daily basis... is that where deadbodyman went??? BTW scrapple sounds a lot like tamale meat
30. Closet Nerd - December 23, 2009 2:41 PM
@29 If bacon, breakfast sausage & hot dogs, had an orgy, the resluting love child would be scrapple
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapple
31. Skeletor - December 23, 2009 2:43 PM
MMMM...look at all that tasty fetus taint!
32. Skeletor - December 23, 2009 2:45 PM
@30 Grapples are pretty good...they are the love child of grapes and apples...pretty tasty, not as much as said food mentioned above though...
33. XD - December 23, 2009 3:33 PM
Closet Nerd can't beat me at anything.
34. Jiakasuma - December 23, 2009 4:28 PM
cool
35. Me - December 23, 2009 4:44 PM
SOOOO OLD this show has been out for two years or more.
36. Reeltalkblog - December 23, 2009 5:55 PM
That cant be reallll.... thats pretty insane.
37. JJtoob - December 23, 2009 6:34 PM
Those AREN'T real. They are elephant, dolphin, baby Jaws, baby triceratops-pterodactyl-splice, and three baby puppies.
38. mungo - December 23, 2009 6:43 PM
"the model makers recreate every blood vessel"...um...but two of the wombs are identical.
39. Jelly - December 23, 2009 9:14 PM
@38, Thats actually the same puppy/fetus, at different times, thus the womb is supposed to be the same.
That penguin reminds me of King Dedede. : \/
40. Wendy - December 23, 2009 10:53 PM
I saw that movie in school! :D
41. Apeman505 - December 24, 2009 12:32 AM
Pretty cool! They used to have to actually cut the womb out (killing the fetus) in order to take this kind of photo for documentary purposes. This is amazing and awesome that they can take this kind of imagery without harming the fetus nowadays!
42. Mr Noddy - December 24, 2009 5:37 AM
Look at the wanger on that Elephant!
Some lucky ladiephant's going to have a good night with that gent! ;)
(Yes, I know it's the umbilical cord)
43. Slaedden - December 24, 2009 6:51 AM
I just wanted to point out that penguins come from eggs, not a mommy penguins tummy. But... other than that they do all look really delicious, could you imagine what penguin eggs and elephant bacon for breakfast would be like?!?!?!
44. Dumbass White Guy - December 24, 2009 7:32 AM
Those aren't babies yet.
Everybody knows those are just blobs of tissue.
Yeah. I brought the abortion argument into the thread!
F!
T!
W!
BooYAH!
/sarc
DaWG
A resident of America's Hat.©
45. krista - December 24, 2009 7:54 AM
super old, this has been around for like 5 years. the human one is cool, watched it about 2 years ago before i had my son, its informative and scary, lol.
46. supernova_hq - December 24, 2009 8:36 AM
@8 same thing.
47. Jaded Icon - December 24, 2009 9:15 AM
@ 8
Debbie: "What's the book about?"
Sparks: "Eating babies......."
48. Jay Climbs - December 24, 2009 12:39 PM
I Thought Penguins were hatched and not birthed...Anyone else see "March of the Penguins?"
49. Me - December 24, 2009 2:04 PM
@48 it says here that the penguin is supposed to be inside the egg still in that picture, but all of these are computer generated basically
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2252015/posts
50. Thumperchica - December 24, 2009 2:18 PM
Hola! These guys are adorkable!!
(I can't follow this site all day long anymore at the new job... :-( sorry guys...
Merry Christmas!!!
51. CJ - December 24, 2009 3:29 PM
The second dog (Fifth Picture starting with the Dolphin) looks like it is saying "I need teepee for my bumhole"
52. Velvet - December 24, 2009 4:17 PM
Interesting. Kind of gross, but still indeed interesting.
53. dukes1 - December 25, 2009 9:59 AM
@5 - OM NOM NOM NOM NOM!
54. Geekolojew - December 26, 2009 8:44 AM
Must See!!!
http://alturl.com/obg7
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55. mcfeely smackup - December 26, 2009 1:23 PM
I guess most of you missed the part that said:
"The filmmakers took detailed scans of the animal's wombs, then had the model makers recreate every blood vessel and whisker. The resulting images, while not direct photographs"
These are NOT photographs of fetus animals you fucking cretins, these are models of what it kind of looks like.
56. Sulvo - December 27, 2009 5:41 PM
Is the last one a baby Luckdragon? Google it.
57. r4 dsi - December 28, 2009 1:23 AM
Hi Guy's,
Pretty amazing, but foetuses of any species aren't just floating with tons of free open space around them. They're all smushed.
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60. pikanova - December 29, 2009 3:11 PM
i think is freaking beautiful ! :D
61. Writings of French Geek - January 14, 2010 11:35 AM
All the mammals are born from the belly from their mother, and ourselves we come from planet-mother http://bit.ly/7CVRWf
62. ANA - February 7, 2010 9:05 AM
MUITO LEGUAL, MEUS ALUNOS AMARAM
63. danareia - November 6, 2010 3:11 PM
thats so discusting the way they look
64. leahh - January 15, 2011 12:12 PM
I love animals AND i love baby aniamals