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  • Memories made of this: USB stick found in frozen seal poo

    02/05/2019 1:59:12 PM PST · by Red Badger · 60 replies
    www.reuters.com ^ | February 5, 2019 / 6:51 AM | Staff
    Scientists in New Zealand say they have found a USB memory stick containing holiday photos inside a frozen slab of seal poo. The scat, valuable for studying the health of leopard seals, had been stored in a freezer for a year before it was thawed out for analysis, the researchers said. “Concealed deep inside the scat was a USB stick,” the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) said on its website. The stick was in good condition, “considering where it had come from”, and the researchers let it dry out for a few weeks. It contained photos of...
  • A National Geographic Photographer’s Incredible Arctic Experience

    11/17/2009 3:36:31 AM PST · by Daffynition · 24 replies · 1,685+ views
    Petapixel.com ^ | November 16, 2009 | Michael Zhang
    Here’s a video that’s going viral on YouTube. National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen traveled to Antarctica to photograph leopard seals in the water. After arriving, they came across one of the largest leopard seals his experienced guide had ever seen. What happened next you’ll have to see to believe: VIDEO LINK For more on this event, you can read this interview with Paul Nicklen, and check out the photographs that resulted in this gallery.