NBCNEWS.com, LiveScience, Dec.2011 Ask anyone to name an Antarctic land animal, and chances are the response will be, “penguin.” Try again, says David Barnes, a scientist with the British Antarctic Survey. “Penguins aren’t really residents on land. All the species except for one — emperor penguins — spend most of their lives at sea,” Barnes told OurAmazingPlanet. “And likewise the other sea birds go north during Antarctica’s winter,” he added. It turns out that the usual suspects — penguins, seals […]

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