Granted, such questions are drowned out by the wacky, if unusually subdued, presence of Short and occasionally transcendent pre-CGI special effects — an astounding Starchild moment in which Tuck encounters a moon -
sized foetus, for example.
The researchers found that when corticosterone was given later in pregnancy and the mice allowed to eat freely, the mother ate more but her placenta was less able to transport glucose to the
foetus, leading to a decrease in the
size of the
foetus.