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Snow petrels hunt in Antarctic sea ice, feeding on krill and fish.
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Snow Petrel

 The white body of the snow petrel blends in with the stark Antarctic landscape,...
The Antarctic minke whale is the only baleen whale found in the icy waters of the Antarctic.
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Antarctic Minke Whale

 The elegant Antarctic minke whale feeds on krill (tiny crustaceans) during the...
Antarctica is almost entirely covered by ice sheets up to two miles (3 km) thick, which contain roughly 70% of the world’s freshwater.
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Ross Sea Ice Shelf

 Antarctica is almost entirely covered by ice sheets up to two miles (3 km) thick,...
Every year as the sun disappears for the winter, the surface waters around Antarctica freeze into a slab of ice 10-feet thick, which effectively doubles the size of the continent.
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Antarctic Pack Ice

 Every year as the sun disappears for the winter, the surface waters around...
a squalodontid skull is dislodged after a plaster jacket is applied
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Dislodging the Fossil

 Paeleobiologist Dr. Nicholas Pyenson, Curator of Fossil Marine Mammals for the...
Smithsonian scientists apply a plaster bandage cap to a block of rock containing fossils
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Securing the Fossil

 Paeleobiologist Dr. Nicholas Pyenson, Curator of Fossil Marine Mammals for the...