Weddell seals bask in the sun as they lay on the ice outside Scott Base, the New Zealand research station in the Antarctic, as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry observed them on November 12, 2016, after touring the facility, the neighboring McMurdo Station, and other U.S. research facilities around Ross Island and the Ross Sea in an effort to learn about the effects of climate change on the Continent. [State Department Photo/ Public Domain]
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