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Crustaceans - krill (euphausiids), copepods, amphipods, isopods, crabs, shrimp, sea Spiders, and many others
Other marine invertebrates - squid, cuttle-fish, octopus, marine snails, limpets, sponges, sea stars, sea squirts, nudibranchs, sea anemones, comb jellies, corals, hydroids, sea urchins, Antarctic krill, zooplankton, and many others
Insects and Arachnids - Springtails, mites, the midge Parochlus steineni (the only winged insect native to the Antarctic), and others
Fish - Antarctic cod, ice fish, crocodile fish, dragon fish, robber fish, rat-tailed fish, skates, eel-pouts, sea snails, and others
Mammals - Fur seals (including the Elephant seal, Leopard seal, Weddell seal, Crabeater seal, Ross seal, and Fur seal), Whales (including the Blue whale, Fin whale, Sei whale, Southern right whale, Humpback whale, Minke whale, Sperm whale, Killer whale or Orca, Southern bottlenose whale, Blackfish, Dusky dolphin, Cruciger dolphin, and Spectacled porpoise)
Birds - many penguins (including Emperor, King, Macaroni, Rockhopper, Chinstrap, Adélie, and Gentoo), many albatrosses (including the Lightly-maned sooty, Wandering, Gray-headed and Black-browed), many petrels (including the Blue, Kerguelen, Gray, Great-winged, White-headed, White-chinned, Snow, Southern giant, Wilson's storm, Black-bellied storm, Gray-backed storm, and pintado), many prions (including the dove, fulmar, and thin-billed), Antarctic fulmar, Antarctic cormorant Kerguelen cormorant, Dominican gull, Brown skua, McCormick's skua, Arctic tern, Kerguelen tern, Wattled sheathbill, Lesser sheathbill, South Georgia pintail, Kerguelen pintail, and South Georgia pipit (the only Antarctic songbird).
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∙ 8y agoNo animal lives on Antarctica. It's too cold and there is no food chain. Sea birds and sea mammals, however, breed on Antarctica's beaches, because there are no land predators.
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∙ 11y agoVarious penguins, leopard seals, orca and whales.
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∙ 11y agoPenguins!
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How big is the largest land animal in Antarctica and what is it?
The largest animal you will find today in Antarctica is a tall human. Antarctica's too cold to support animal life and there is no food chain there.
What is one animal you would find in Antarctica?
You would not find any animal living on the continent, however, you may find penguins breeding on Antarctica's beaches during that season.
What is Antarctica's official animal?
There is no official animal for the continent of Antarctica.
What are critters that feed on pollen called?
are critters a tipe of animal
Does the Narwhal Whale come from Antarctica?
No. This is a northern polar animal you can find in Arctic waters.
Where do you find most of the life in the antarctica ecosystem?
You find the most life around Antarctica in the great Southern Ocean in the form of marine life. The continent is too cold to support any kind of animal life.
What tipe of fish do sea outters eat?
There is no such animal as a "sea outter".
How do you conserve animal life in Antarctica?
we can conserve animal life in Antarctica by not killing animals
What tipe of animal skin did Powhatan Indians use for clothing?
deer skin
What is like a penguin?
A Penguin is an animal. You can find this animal in Antarctica but it is too cold there for somebody to actually live there. A penguin moves around by waddling.
What kind of animals are there in south pole Antarctica?
The only animal you will find at the South Pole is a human animal, living and working there in support of science.
Where in Antarctica are animals found?
The only animals you can find on Antarctica are sea mammals and sea birds that visit Antarctica's beaches to breed. Otherwise, it is too cold there to support animal life, and there is no food chain.
