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“Amazingly, photographer and filmmaker Jan van IJken has captured these first fleeting moments.”

Jason Bittelnationalgeographic.com ↗

One fertilized egg becomes a swimming newt in six minutes of film. Salamander eggs are transparent, so you can watch every fold. A biologist who studied this for 15 years says the video nearly made her cry. Textbooks show diagrams. This shows the thing itself.