African Lake turns animals into stone

It's an interesting case, and the photos are nice. But it's important to read the last paragraph of the article:

> For the series of photos, titled “The Calcified” and featured in this month’s issue of New Scientist, Brandt posed the carcasses in life-like positions. “But the bodies themselves are exactly the way the birds were found,” he insists. “All I did was position them on the branches, feeding them through their stiff talons.”