Amazing antarctic animals – learn about penguins, seals, fish, birds, squid, krill and whales.

Skuas and sheathbills also eat penguin eggs and chicks. Penguins are only found in the Southern Hemisphere. The greatest concentrations are on Antarctic coasts and sub-Antarctic islands. …

Find out how Antarctic animals are adapted for some of the coldest environments on earth.

Australia began moving north quickly, and Antarctica was isolated for the first time since animals evolved. About 30 million years ago, the Southern Ocean began to circulate around the …

Seals spend much of their time under the sea ice in Antarctica, experiencing the relatively ‘warm’ sea temperatures. No matter how cold the air temperature is, the temperature of the sea is …

Jan 30, 2025 · Australian Antarctic Program scientists have released the most comprehensive database of species living in the ice-free areas of Antarctica, after 16 years of research.

About Antarctica More information Animals Amazing antarctic animals – learn about penguins, seals, fish, birds, squid, krill and whales.

What an incredible privilege to get up close to these animals, you can’t imagine how large they are. Words just cannot describe it, and everyone on that vessel when we first came up close to …

The Antarctic food web is a complex network of food chains, with Antarctic krill as dinner for animals like penguins, seals, whales, fish and flying birds.

Leopard seals are solitary animals that inhabit pack-ice surrounding the Antarctic continent. They are perhaps the greatest wanderers of the Antarctic seals with sightings in Tasmania and a …