Weddell Seal Pelts (IMAGE)

University of California - Santa Cruz

Weddell Seal Pelts

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Inside the Cape Evans Hut is a pile of Weddell seal pelts from a hundred years ago. Researchers compared samples from these pelts and from modern Weddell seals to see if the ecology of the species has changed in the last century.

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Luis Huckstadt

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