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A sperm whale floats amid shards of polar pack ice, dead and decomposing, mouth hanging open. When photographer Roie Galitz captured the scene with a drone, the image was so arresting that it took a moment to notice the hungry female polar bear stretching her jaw to break through the whale’s leathery skin. “I had an idea of what to expect,” he says, “but I didn’t expect it to be that epic.” Galitz was leading a photography expedition along Norway’s Svalbard archipelago when he spotted a blackened blob floating on the horizon. As the icebreaker drew close, he could see (and smell) that the blob was a massive decaying carcass releasing an occasional exhalation of noxious gas, “like a big air cushion,” says Galitz. “With the Arctic, it’s like being in a big freezer, but sometimes you get a sniff.” 📷 Roie Galitz

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