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A mesmerizing short film has condensed a salamander's embryonic development from about three weeks down to approximately six minutes.
'Becoming,' created by Dutch director Jan van IJken, captures an amphibious alpine newt transforming from a single cell into a fully-formed organism in stunning detail.
It begins by showing the 'universal process' of a single newt cell dividing and multiplying into many cells - a process called embryogenesis.