The first prize winning photo in the Nature Stories category in the 2007 World Press Photo Contest shows a leopard seal hunting in Antarctica. The prize-winning entries were announced on February 9, 2007. [Reuters/Paul Nicklen/National Geographic Magazine/Handout]
 

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