They've got those black sinister eyes and those spots on their body.

Now, what leopard seals do mostly is, they eat penguins.

This is sort of the munch of the penguins.

Photographer Paul Nicklin traveled to Antarctica to shoot a story on leopard seals.

And he has a lot of experience with leopard seals. I have never seen one.

All the leopard seal was doing it's just biting a balloon.

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And this bear swam out to that seal 800 lb. bearded seal grabbed it, swam back and ate it.

As a species, as humans, we like to say penguins are really cute, therefore, leopard seals eat them, so leopard seals are ugly and bad.

And you're kind of trapped in the texture of Kymaerica.

So we come around the cove in our little Zodiac boat, and there's this monstrous leopard seal.

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When they're in rut they're similar to seals in the way, like, a seal has to open its nose to breathe.

That's the Cheetah Generation, and Africa's salvation rests on the backs of these Cheetahs.

The penguin doesn't know it's cute, and the leopard seal doesn't know it's kind of big and monstrous.

The cheetah generation.

And so this leopard seal grabbed another penguin, came under the boat, the Zodiac, starting hitting the hull of the boat.

I call them the Cheetah Generation.

That's his thumbprint!

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So I just thought, I'm going to capture thumbprint, footprint, or whatever traces we leave as humans.

George Ayittey on Cheetahs vs. Hippos

Rise and walk away like a panther.

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You get 12 tourists packed into a Zodiac, floating in these icy waters, and a leopard seal comes up and bites the pontoon.

Even though that spirit bear moment was powerful, I don't think I'll ever have another experience like I did with these leopard seals.

And tragically in 2003 , a scientist was taken down and drowned, and she was being consumed by a leopard seal.

A marine biologist was attacked and drowned by a Leopard Seal at Rothera Research Station in July 2003.

DH You can't get any better than that. All right. What I will do I will use my panther like reflexes.

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These are the beautiful waves.

So it's been several years since I got my own tattoo.

Did the police find any fingerprints?

According to the Jilin Provincial Forestry Department, the cooperation on enhancing the protection of tigers and leopards of China and Russia is not only quite pressing task for the protection of manchurian tigers and Northeastern leopards, but also a priority to maintain the population health of tigers and leopards of Russia.

So the streaks that you see, all these streaks, are actually distorted images of galaxies that are much further away.