The National Geographic Channel is airing a full documentary called In the Womb: Extreme Animals.
Using 4D ultrasound images and fetal imaging techniques, the two-hour special will highlight bizarre, sometimes gruesome, activity such as the parasitic wasps’ larval development inside the body of a young cabbage white caterpillar and the lemon sharks’ embryonic cannibalism.
An Emperor penguin chick embryo inside its egg after about one week’s gestation. (Photo credit © Steve Gomez / Pioneer Productions )
Parasitic wasp successfully oviposits her eggs into a newborn caterpillar. (Photo credit © Hans Smid / Pioneer Productions)For more info, see the National Geographic Channel: Extreme Animals website.






