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The sight of hulking moose isn’t uncommon in the region around Unalakleet, an Alaska town on the coast of the Bering Sea. But Brad Webster had never seen moose like this before.

Webster, a social studies and science teacher, was showing a friend around the grounds of the Bible camp that he helps maintain. It was early November — before the first snow, but cold enough that the slough at the site was covered in a sheet of ice thick enough to walk on and clear enough to see through. Webster’s friend was new to Alaska, and it was his first time walking on ice. So they decided to go for a walk on the waterway.

 

The two men rounded a bend, and there, Webster said, they saw it: a large set of antlers and a hairy brown hump protruding from the ice. They got closer, and they saw another hump — and another set of antlers, entangled with the first set.

The two bull moose were lying on their sides, apparently locked in a fight to the death, and now perfectly preserved in eight inches of ice.

“We were both kind of in awe,” Webster, 33, said in an interview on Wednesday. “I’ve heard of other animals this had happened to, but I’ve never seen anything like this.”

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