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Fetuses Caught Yawning In 4D

Posted by timothy on from the amniotic-and-insomniac dept.

Rambo Tribble writes "Reuters reports 4D scans have conclusively shown that fetuses do yawn. Understandable, eh? After all, all they get is cable."

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  1. 4D? by Stiletto · · Score: 3, Insightful

    WTF is "4D" supposed to mean when applied to ultrasound technology? They're 2D images of 3D objects. Can we finally measure the hyperfetus?

  2. Re:You've Touched The 3rd Rail!! by interkin3tic · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Abortion third rail on slashdot? Please. Climate change, that's more of a third rail than abortion.

  3. And? by Paul+Carver · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So do dogs. Cats yawn too. I'm not sure about mice.

    What's the point of this story, is there some burning question as to what organisms yawn? A yawning controversy I haven't heard of perhaps? Or some prospective line of in inquiry into the science of yawning?

    This story seems like a puff piece devoid of any significant detail or content worth posting to Slashdot.

  4. Re:This is silly. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yawning is not all about breathing. Why would you post so authoritatively about something you are ignorant? Oh right, slashdot.

    Here's a link at your level

    http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/yawning.html

  5. Re:This is silly. by s0nicfreak · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A fetus becomes a baby the moment it exits the mother's body alive.
    An ass never becomes a man, it becomes an adult ass.

  6. Re:You've Touched The 3rd Rail!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If that were the pro-life stance I might listen to them. However, reailty steps in and they think killing live born babies who have survived an abortion after full term gestation should be allowed. I can't agree with that stance. Obama voted 4 times in IL to continue allowing babies who are born surviving an abortion to be killed. So you may not be in the pro-life camp, but I can assure you are no where near the pro-choice camp at all.

    Obama