April 28, 2010

National Geographic is rolling out a new documentary series called "Extraordinary Animals in the Womb" that looks to be really interesting and informative.

Aside from being about interesting animal fetuses images were captured is really cool, it's one of the first instances of 4-dimensional scanning. To get the images, producer Peter Chin used a 'combination of three-dimensional ultrasound scans, computer graphics and tiny cameras to capture the process from conception to birth of a number of animals including sharks, elephants, dolphins, dogs, and penguins'.

Since I have a fascination with all things gross and bodily (the podcast I am listening to was titled "Should We Save Umbilical Cord Blood?") this sounds like a really interesting series that I figured I'd share here with anyone else interested in animal babies and blood and birth. Oh, and penguins.

Check out the page for the Extraordinary Animals episodes here and the general page for the documentary series here.