if you're at the top of the himalayas, you can see the development of industry in india. you can see when lead was put into gasoline. you can see when legislation was passed to remove it. anything that's in the air gets recorded. and perhaps, with the ice cores, probably the thing that really makes them unique is that they record the history of the earth's atmosphere. and you can see how the earth's atmosphere has changed through time. and our limitations is just interpreting how that recorder is working. when i came to ohio state university, i was prettyonvinced i was going to become a coal geologist. because, having grown up in west virginia, i could see -- one of the reasons of going to college was to get a job. and i could see the application there. in my first quarter here, i got a little note in my mailbox that said, "how would you like to work for a research program "in the institute of polar studies, looking at ice cores?" and so i took this position. it took me about a year, year and a half, to really start to realize what was archived in those ice cores, or the

this is one of the most endangered cats in the entire world. 500 maybe in the himalayas. >> it's not. it's magnificent. this cat takes that tail and wraps around him, and keeps him warm, like you would a jacket. >> and big paws, too, that are natural snowshoes. >> natural snowshoes. >> can i keep him? i'm scared to give him away. >> you better give him away. >> right. he might want to eat barbie, the porcupine. did you get that? >> barbie. i get it. this is -- this is one of the animals that you can't believe exists until you see one up close. >> don't get his quill. these quills, by the way, they're from africa. they're from zimbabwe. they're not all in northern africa and central africa. these kills, are used as weapons in that part of the world. >> how does barbie deploy them? >> they go up like this, like a peacock and rattle their feathers. it's the largest porcupine in the world. >> bush baby? is there a bush baby? these are beautiful. >> bush baby. >> what i love about the bush baby, they carry the infants in the mother's mouth for the first month? >> yes. what are you doing?

on the movie, it appears to be the himalayas. but it was shot here in beautiful iceland. >> okay.ion. >> good morning, steve, peter and elisabeth. thank you for having me on the show. growing up i always thought that iceland was green and greenland was ice. for the most part that is true. but this time of year, it's covered in beautiful snow and beautiful ice. i'm here visiting the set locations where ben stiller directed "the secret life of walter mitty" and shot for 30 days here. that glacier you saw me on, that is the third largest glacier in the entire world and the largest glacier in all of europe. i visited a beautiful, small fishing town called hop where ben stiller lived for 30 days when he shot the film. the cool thing is the community is so small that the local dentist actually rented out his house to ben stiller while he was living there and shooting the movie. and in the community, there is these two houses that compete every single year for the best christmas tree lights. it's incredible. i visited the iceland premiere of the movie last night. i interviewed a rock gro

she lives -- she can live up in the tundra, in e himalayas. they will hunt out there.s to turn her head. >> julie, 150 pounds. >> admit it. >> 70 pounds. i don't know how you got it. >> our next guests are so cute. asian otters. >> we are gonna have -- >> look that the guy. >> zander come over. >> zander has a trick. >> zblapder is going into the present he is. >> the candy. >> like my son in the morning. >> yeah. you can -- we will have another presents later, but these guys are for fwachbd alexander, they love christmastime at seaworld in san diego, because this is their favorite thing, getting into everybody's present he is and finding out. >> it is amazing. >> their paws pretty sensitive? >> they are very sensitive. that is how they find their food out in the wild. they would be actually watching for predators with their eyes facial up, while their paws are looking all over in the mud and underneath the water to find fish, crayfish, shrimp. you know what, we have some shrimp here and some fish. >> get in there. >> you guys hold it by the head. >> like a game -- >>