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Butterfly Emerging from Cocoon

This is some kind of cocoon incubation tank in the new Live Butterfly Pavilion at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. We were lucky enough to catch a couple of butterflies just coming out; note how the butterfly at right gives the newbie some help.

More photos from the Butterfly exhibit here.

One Comment

  1. Tom Jackson wrote:

    See also

    http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/03/the_miracle_of_birth.php

    for a similar video involving toads.

    Monday, March 24, 2008 at 3:20 pm | Permalink