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PHOTO OF THE DAY January 14, 2004  

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Where South Georgia island, Falkland Islands
When 1998
Photographer Maria Stenzel

Leopard seals' unusually long foreflippers, slender bodies, and large powerful jaws help make them perhaps the top Antarctic predator.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Shackleton: Epic of Survival," November 1998, National Geographic magazine)

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