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  • Workers lift a frozen coelacanth fish that is being transported to a museum. Coelacanths are the fossil fish that bridge the gap between fish and the mammals that left the sea to walk on land.  Their fins become legs.<br />
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70 million years old, scientists previously considered the fish long extinct. In 1938, however, a fishing trawler brought up a live specimen. Since then more than 100 living coelacanths, remarkably unchanged since the Cretaceous period, have been caught off the coast of South Africa.<br />
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The coelacanth is classified as vulnerable by the World Conservation Union (also known as the IUCN), an international organization that maintains a global list of vulnerable and endangered species called the Red List. A vulnerable classification means that the species faces a high risk of extinction in the near future.
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  • Cross country skier glides along side his dog as snow falls on frozen Mendenhall Lake surrounded by trees at the base of the glacier in Alaska's Southeast.
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  • People ice-fishing on the Ural River in front of the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Plant.
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  • Tracy Arms, a retreating glacier in Tongass National Forest.
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  • Cross country skiing with a dog on Mendenhall Lake.
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  • Ice tunnels and crevices in Mendenhall Glacier.
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  • Waterfall of melting ice from glaciers in Stikine icefieds.
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  • Le Conte glacier in Stikine ice fields near Petersburg.
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  • An ice climber climbing an ice candle in Triglavski National Park.
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  • An ice climber climbing an ice candle in Triglavski National Park.
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  • A couple who live in public housing practice the zero waste lifestyle
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  • A young hockey player dressed in a red snowsuit heads for the frozen lake in Mount Royal Park. Montreal's city park is beloved by in all four seasons with skiers, skater, hikers and bikers. It is a magnificent urban green space featuring 200 hectares of biodiversity and natural beauty. Inaugurated in 1876, it was planned by Frederick Law Olmsted who is famous for creating New York's Central Park.
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  • Warm, well-dressed dogs and tourist families wait for a race to begin on frozen Lake Saint Moritz. The Engadine valley hosts winter competitions such as skijoring where a skier is pulled by horses or dogs and a cross country or Nordic skiing marathon race.
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  • Steller's sea-eagles hone in on a salmon run to feed. Kurilskoe Lake preserve is the gem of the Russian preserve system, and these soaring birds of prey are called Stellar sea eagles in the U.S. and white-shouldered eagles in Russia, also nicknamed “parrots.” <br />
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They are one of the 137 species that depend solely on salmon for protein. Salmon carcasses frozen near the surface of very shallow streams make frozen “TV dinners” for several species.
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  • Aerial view of some of the 16,000 participants in the Ski Marathon as Nordic skiers trek across frozen upper Engadine valley. The winter event has been hosted since 1969 drawing athletes and tourists to mountain communities around Saint Moritz in the Alps.
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  • Renown ice climber Marco Prezelj tackles an ice candle in Triglav National Park, Slovenia's only national park in the Alps. Frozen waterfalls are a technical challenge and Prezelj explained he listens to the pitch of sound of ice cracking to plan the safest route.
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  • A rustic gazebo shelter perched on a frozen lake after a winter's snow in Brooklyn's Prospect Park. The 585 acre public green space that opened in 1867 was designed by the influential landscape architecture team of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux.  Prospect Park Alliance was formed in 1987 to help maintain and preserve Olmsted and Vaux’s work. They have rebuilt the designers’ rustic shelters with the original methods—no nails, only pegs and dowels to keep the wooden lakeside structures together.
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