Pintado Petrel
Decked out in their distinctive dappled coloring, these dapper "little devourers" have a pigeon-like habit of pecking at the water while feeding
View DetailsChinstrap Penguin
Though armed with the "stonebreaker" nickname and a quarrelsome reputation, these gentoo relatives are fading from the Antarctic – probably due to climate change
View DetailsCobb’s Wren
Named after the farmer and bird writer Arthur Cobb, these native Falkland birds have such a small region and population that they are prone to inbreeding
View DetailsNearctic Collared Lemming
These small-scale members of the Arctic family not only design their living quarters to perfection, they're the only polar rodent to custom-fit their fur color to the snowfall
View DetailsCommerson’s Dolphin
Named after the French naturalist who discovered them, these cetaceans are among the smallest to populate the Antarctic seas
View DetailsCormorant
The only Antarctic bird to keep a year-round nest as long as the ice holds off, these neighbor-robbing homebodies are a welcome sight for sailors in search of land
View DetailsCrabeater Seal
They may be Earth's most abundant seal, but their teeth are far from typical and are perhaps the most precisely designed eating tool of any living carnivore
View DetailsDark-faced Ground Tyrant
Nicknamed “news bird” for its habit of hopping close to other birds as if to relay news, the dark-faced ground tyrant is part of the largest family of birds in the Americas
View DetailsEmperor Penguin
The largest, deepest-diving, and least interested in nests of all the penguins, these aptly named Aptenodytes are among the most coveted wildlife attractions in the Antarctic
View DetailsFin Whale
Akin to their blue whale relatives both in size and the low frequency of their song, these "razorbacks" have asymmetrically colored faces thought to help them while hunting
View DetailsFulmar
The Norse used to call them "foul ghouls" for their pungent-smelling stomach oil, but this evolutionary trait is both a defensive tactice and mid-flight energy source
View DetailsGentoo Penguin
These hygienic divers are the only penguin species whose population is currently increasing along the Antarctic Peninsula
View DetailsGiant Petrel
These Greek-dubbed "long swimmers" are the only members of the Procellariidae family with legs strong enough to walk about on land
View DetailsGlaucous Gull
Estos afilados carroñeros no sólo se cuentan entre los más grandes de su especie, sino que también son bastante peleones cuando se trata de llenar el buche
View DetailsGrey Seal
Bearing the less-than-noble nickname "hook-nosed sea pig," these sleek swimmers were once close to extinction in the US and are now protected under American law
View DetailsCommon Loon
Thought to be the oldest bird species on the planet, these fiercely devoted parents have been commemorated on the Canadian dollar coin
View DetailsGreen Turtle
A remnant from the days of the dinosaurs, these cold-blooded herbivores cannot retract into their shells like many other turtle species
View DetailsGrey Phalarope
A wader most of the year but an ocean resident in winter, these hygienic birds have the waste-not-want-not habit of eating lice off the backs of whales
View DetailsGrey-headed Albatross
These "gold-mouthed" mollymawks live at sea but spend most of their lives in the air, protecting their title as world's fastest horizontal flier
View DetailsHarbour Porpoise
Known to medieval literates as "pig fish," these adventurous mammals sometimes swim far upriver and away from their homes at sea
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