NEW ZEALAND KAYAKER’S LOST PICTURES FOUND ‘SEALED IN POOP’

WELLINGTON: A team of New Zealand scientists sifting through a slab of frozen leopard seal droppings have found a USB stick containing photos of frolicking sea lions. The droppings, known scientifically as “scat”, had been stored in a freezer for about a year and were being defrosted during research on the fish-eating mammals. They were originally collected in November 2017 by a vet sent to check on a sick leopard seal on Oreti Beach on the southern tip of New Zealand’s South Island. “Concealed deep inside the scat was a USB stick,” the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research said in a statement. The memory stick was in reasonably good condition considering where it had come from. AFP