On this (March 22nd), meet the six seal species that live in the ocean surrounding Antarctica. Weddell Seals use their teeth to scrape breathing holes in the sea ice where they live so they can forage and breed. https://t.co/zbxFzjcxDV

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Weddell Seal よく氷の上に転がってる寝てるおっさん。可愛いおっさん。ぼーっと眺めてると寝息が聞こえてきてこっちまで眠くなる。#南極旅行記

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Like all babies, this Weddell pup has unfused skull bones at birth, and unerupted teeth! All while entering a harsh world of ice and freezing temperatures ❄🌨

📸: Samuel Blanc

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A final sunset over the Weddell Sea before we leave the ice 📸 Colin De La Harpe

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This 1862 map shows the very beginnings of Antarctic exploration. That point James Weddell reached in 1823 was the farthest south a ship had ever been. 88 years later - - Amundsen became the first person to reach the South Pole.
https://t.co/pypZzd7wuc
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I'm just a Weddell seal trying to keep open it's air hole in the arctic ice.

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