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This great land mass is only 250 miles east of Africa across the Mozambique Channel . All business , Bandar identifies it as a male harbor seal , measures its body size , looks for signs of trauma , and then checks to see if its head is reasonably intact . Karl Schmidt of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago died after suffering a bite from an African boomslang in 1957 . Bandar immersed himself in classes , building collections of reptiles and insects for the sheer joy of discovery . This molluscan faunas of this region are a paleontological Rosetta Stone , because they are made up of species that evolved in Asia and sometimes migrated to Alaska , species that evolved in the U.S. West Coast and occasionally migrated north , and species endemic to southern Alaska . Back then , Bandar was the only one who bothered to pick up the skeletons scattered on almost every Mexican beach . Academy connections gained Bandar a berth on several expeditions to Mexico , including the 1964 and 1966 expedition to the Sea of Cortez . Treasury 's Deputy Assistant Commissioner for Debt Management Services informed us that an action plan was being drafted and will include the establishment of an interagency task force in June 1997 . Since the 1960s , Bandar has been collecting under the permits of the California Academy of Sciences . An autopsy of Karl Schmidt revealed that , even as he prepared to go back to work , he had been hemorrhaging from small leaks all over his body .