The Chapel of Our Lady of the Snows (Capilla de Nuestra Señora de las Nieves) is the southern-most worship site, let alone southern-most Catholic Church, in the world and is one of 8 churches in Antarctica. It’s carved into a permanent glacier in Argentina’s Belgrano II Base, serving the year-round population of 12 researchers.
…there’s something familiar, comforting, almost friendly about dog-faced bats. Until recently, six species of these flying mammals were known to scientists. Now research has added two more to the list: Freeman’s dog-faced bat (Cynomops freemani) in Panama, and the Waorani dog-faced bat (Cynomops tonkigui) in Ecuador.