At least 933 dead seals have washed ashore in Kazakhstan in recent weeks, most of them pups.

Although surveys taken last January counted half a dozen dead seals and sea otters, scientists now say those deaths were unrelated to the spill.

Later, Miles had carved the dead seals' faces on the two killing clubs to honour the animals' sacrifice.

It spotted the dust devil of skuas over the dead seal.

Location mentioned by Pitt as the site where fifty or more dead seals washed ashore.

"I thought at first it might be a dead seal, but then I saw the little toes," she recalled yesterday.

"Perhaps they have found a dead seal and cook it," said Wi to himself.

Similarly the polar bear can scent out a dead seal from 20 kilometres away.

In one, a polar bear stands on a snow field, eyeing a dead seal.

His lifelong interest in zoology was formed at age seven upon seeing a dead seal at a local market.