Unusual chemical properties in a Tanzanian lake give it the ability to support some wildlife while turning other animals into calcified mummies. Photographer Nick Brandt, who has captured images in eastern
Africa for years, stumbled across Lake Natron in Tanzania and found dead birds and bats that looked like they were frozen in time.
Brandt told CBS in an email, "Discovering them washed up along the shoreline ... I thought they were extraordinary — every last tiny detail perfectly preserved down to the tip of a bat's tongue, the minute hairs on his face."
Brandt told New Scientist he believed these animals were, at some point, immersed in the water. He later took them from the shoreline, placed them in different poses and photographed them.
Brandt told CBS in an email, "Discovering them washed up along the shoreline ... I thought they were extraordinary — every last tiny detail perfectly preserved down to the tip of a bat's tongue, the minute hairs on his face."
Brandt told New Scientist he believed these animals were, at some point, immersed in the water. He later took them from the shoreline, placed them in different poses and photographed them.
