As climate change leads to warming global temperatures, nature’s time capsules—a.k.a. glaciers, permafrost, and icebergs—are melting and exposing millennia of history. Whether they be mummified animals or ancient bacteria, the finds are incredible. Now, a sailor has seen something particularly unbelievable floating in the frozen sea near the coast of northeastern Canada: a black, veiny iceberg.
Hallur Antoniussen was working onboard the Saputi factory freezer trawler when he saw the berg. He told the Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) that he had over 50 years of fishing experience, but had never seen something quite like this frozen behemoth before.