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A leopard with powerful hind flippers patrols the rocks of West Anvers Island waiting for unsuspecting penguin chicks to head to sea.

A large seal rests on a piece of glacier ice at ice berg alley, Antarctica. Leopard seals mostly feed on penguins in the morning and rest in the afternoon.

This very large female leopard seal was over 4 metres in length and probably over 500 Kilograms. The first time I got in the water with her, she was very aggressive with me. But, after several threat displays she eventually relaxed to the point…

Leopard seals have always had a fiercesome reputation. The fact that they eat penguins, such as this Gentoo penguin does not help their reputation any. However, in 2003, things took a turn for the worst when Kirsty Brown, a British scientist was…

Human brain, Homo sapiens, National Museum of Health and Medicine, Washington, D.C.

Surf, bull kelp, Durvillaea sp., and Snares crested penguins, Eudyptes robustus, The Snares, New Zealand

Quiver trees, Aloe dichotoma, Richtersveld National Park, South Africa

Whisk fern, Psilotum nudum, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii

Tuatara, Sphenodon guntheri, North Brother Island, New Zealand

Desert spadefoot frog, Notaden nichollsi, Central Australia