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Toughness has limits: over 1,100 species live in Antarctica – but they're at risk from human activity

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Toughness has limits: over 1,100 species live in Antarctica – but they're at risk from human activityLaura Phillips, Author provided

It’s hard to survive in bitterly cold Antarctica. But the ice continent is home to more than 1,100 species who have adapted to life on land and in its lakes.

Penguins are the most well known, but Antarctica’s diversity lies in its microbes and species like mosses, lichens and tardigrades (water bears)....

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