ANIMALS OF ANTARCTICA

Despite frigid and hostile conditions, coastal Antarctica is full of animals. Here’s how they survive blistering winds and, of course, the ice.

The average coastal temperature is -10 °C, but highly specialised animals defy the Antarctic cold. Some survive on a diet of seal faeces. Others have converted their teeth into a fine-meshed strainer.

FRED OLIVIER/NATUREPL & KLEIN & HUBERT/NATUREPL Penguins keep warm by standing close together in groups. The offspring is at the centre, where it is warmest.