The Beautiful and Bizarre Lake Natron
納特龍湖的美麗與詭譎

Lake Natron in Tanzania is a large salt lake fed by mineral-rich springs. However, no rivers or streams leave it, and the unique mixture of salts and minerals has a strange effect on animals that die in its waters: they turn into statues.
When an animal dies in the waters of Lake Natron, minerals quickly flood into the dead body, preserving it in a stone-like form. It appears as if these creatures were brought back to life at the magnificent lake where they died. Still, they look as beautiful in death as they did in life.
位於坦尚尼亞的納特龍湖為由富含礦物質的泉水孕育而成的巨大鹹水湖。但卻沒有任何河流及溪水流出這座湖,而鹽與礦物質的獨特結合對死於其水域中的動物有個奇特的影響 ── 牠們會轉化為雕像。
一隻動物死亡於納特龍湖水域中後,礦物質會迅速湧進死去動物的軀體而將其保存於石像般的形體中。這些生物彷彿於這座牠們死去的壯麗湖泊中重新復甦了生命。儘管死去,牠們仍如同生前一般美麗。

英倫翻譯社轉自https://tw.news.appledaily.com/international/daily/20190619/38368916/

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