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Fetuses May Have a Womb With a View Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Medicine   
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A fetus might learn to see before it is born. So much light penetrates a pregnant woman's tummy that her fetus may develop vision in the final two months of pregnancy. We have long known that fetuses can smell, taste and hear. Marco Del Giudice at the University of Turin in Italy wondered if there was enough light present for them to see, too. He measured the amount of light that could penetrate through to a typical woman's uterus. (source: newscientist.com)
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