Name an animal that lives in the Arctic or Antarctica

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Antarctic midge— A flightless fly, the largest animal living entirely on Antarctic land.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Acanthodraco dewitti
• Acetabulastoma arcticum
• Acodontaster conspicuus
• Admete clivicola
• Aethotaxis mitopteryx
• Aglantha digitale
• Agyneta jacksoni
• Agyneta nigripes
• Akarotaxis nudiceps
• Alaska blackfish
• Alaska marmot
• Alaska whitefish
• Alvania zetlandica
• american herring gull
• American pipit
• american wigeon
• Amphipod
• Anarta nigrolunata
• Anasterias antarctica
• Anasterias pedicellaris
• Andrews' beaked whale
• Anoxycalyx joubini
• Antarctic jonasfish
• Antarctic limpet
• Antarctic plunderfish
• Antarctic scale worm
• Antarctic scallop
• Antarctic silverfish
• Antarctic spiny plunderfish
• Antarctic tern
• antipodean albatross
• Arctia lapponica
• Arctia opulenta
• Arctic alligatorfish
• Arctic bluet
• Arctic grayling
• Arctic redpoll
• Arctic ringlet
• Arctic warbler
• Arctic woolly bear
• arnoux's beaked whale
• Artedidraco mirus
• Artedidraco orianae
• Artedidraco shackletoni
• Asperoteuthis nesisi
• Astarte borealis
• atlantic white-sided dolphin
• Atolla chuni
• Auk
• baird's sandpiper
• Bald notothen
• bar-tailed godwit
• Barnacle
• Barnacle goose
• barrow's goldeneye
• Bathydraco antarcticus
• Bathydraco joannae
• Bathydraco macrolepis
• Bathydraco scotiae
• Bathyechiniscus tetronyx
• Bathyraja maccaini
• Bean goose
• Beetle
• Bela ampla
• Belgica albipes
• Benthobrookula calypso
• Bering cisco
• Bering flounder
• Beroe abyssicola
• bigeye notothen
• Black fly
• Black rockcod
• black turnstone
• black-bellied plover
• black-faced sheathbill
• black-headed gull
• black-tailed godwit
• blackfin notothen
• Bloodworm
• blue petrel
• Bluethroat
• blunt scalyhead
• Boloria chariclea
• Boloria frigga
• Boloria natazhati
• Boloria polaris
• Bombus balteatus
• Bombus hyperboreus
• Bombus jonellus
• Bootlace worm
• Botfly
• Bowhead whale— Some individuals pass 200 years, the longest-lived mammal known.
• Branchinecta gaini
• Brant
• bristle-thighed curlew
• Brittle star
• broad-billed prion
• broad-billed sandpiper
• Brünnich's guillemot
• buff-breasted sandpiper
• buller's albatross
• Bumblebee
• Butterfly
• cackling goose
• Calanoides acutus
• Calanus hyperboreus
• Callianira cristata
• Calycopteryx mosleyi
• canada goose
• Canadian lemming
• Capelin
• Cephenemyia trompe
• Ceratoserolis meridionalis
• Ceratoserolis trilobitoides
• Ceratozetella denaliensis
• Chaetopterus antarcticus
• Champsocephalus esox
• Channichthys aelitae
• Channichthys bospori
• Channichthys irinae
• Channichthys mithridatis
• Channichthys panticapaei
• Channichthys rhinoceratus
• Channichthys richardsoni
• Channichthys rugosus
• Channichthys velifer
• Chionobathyscus dewitti
• Chionodraco hamatus
• Chionodraco myersi
• Chionodraco rastrospinosus
• chryxus arctic
• Cirroctopus mawsoni
• Clam
• Clathrina broendstedi
• Clione antarctica
• Cnemidocarpa finmarkiensis
• Coccorhagidia keithi
• cod icefish
• Colias aquilonaris
• Colias chippewa
• Colias gigantea
• Colias hecla
• Colias johanseni
• Colias nastes
• Colias palaeno
• Colias tyche
• Colossendeis colossea
• Colossendeis proboscidea
• Comb jelly
• Commerson dolphin
• common cuckoo
• common goldeneye
• Common greenshank
• Common guillemot
• common gull
• common merganser
• common redpoll
• Common redshank
• common snipe
• Copepod
• Cormorant
• Crabeater seal— Named for crabs, it eats almost nothing but krill.
• crested auklet
• Crozet shag
• Cryodraco antarcticus
• Cryodraco atkinsoni
• Cryodraco pappenheimi
• Cryothenia amphitreta
• Cryptopygus cisantarcticus
• Cryptopygus terranovus
• curlew sandpiper
• Cuthona antarctica
• cuvier's beaked whale
• Cyamus boopis
• Cyclopteropsis mcalpini
• Cygnodraco mawsoni
• Dacodraco hunteri
• dark toad plunderfish
• deep-water spiny plunderfish
• deepwater dragon
• deepwater notothen
• Dinonemertes arctica
• Diving petrel
• Dolloidraco longedorsalis
• Dovekie
• Dragonfish
• dusky notothen
• Dusky thrush
• Eastern yellow wagtail
• Eaton's pintail
• Eatoniella caliginosa
• Eatoniella demissa
• Eatoniella kerguelenensis
• Edwardsiella andrillae
• Eelpout
• Electrona antarctica
• Emerald rockcod
• emperor goose
• Entephria flavicinctata
• Erebia pandrose
• Erebia polaris
• Erebia rossii
• Erect-crested penguin
• Eudonia mawsoni
• Eudorellopsis leuconi
• Eulagisca gigantea
• Eumicrotremus derjugini
• Eumicrotremus spinosus
• Euplokamis crinita
• Eupodes wisei
• Eurasian curlew
• Eurasian dotterel
• Eurasian oystercatcher
• Eurasian wigeon
• European golden plover
• european storm petrel
• Euxoa chimoensis
• Euxoa churchillensis
• fairy prion
• Falsimargarita benthicola
• Falsimargarita gemma
• Falsimargarita thielei
• Falsimohnia innocens
• fieldfare
• Flounder
• Fourhorn sculpin
• fox sparrow
• Friesea tilbrooki
• Fulmar prion
• gadwall
• Galiteuthis glacialis
• Gerlachea australis
• Giant Antarctic octopus
• Glyptonotus antarcticus
• Gobionotothen acuta
• Gobionotothen angustifrons
• Gobionotothen barsukovi
• Gobionotothen marionensis
• golden eagle
• Golden-crowned sparrow
• Gorgonocephalus eucnemis
• gray petrel
• Gray whale
• Gray-cheeked thrush
• Gray-crowned rosy finch
• gray's beaked whale
• graylag goose
• Graytail skate
• great black-backed gull
• great cormorant
• Great knot
• great shearwater
• Great-winged petrel
• greater scaup
• greater white-fronted goose
• Green sea urchin
• Greenland cockle
• Grey rockcod
• Grey-headed chickadee
• Grey-tailed tattler
• grizzly-polar bear hybrid
• Guillemot
• Gvozdarus balushkini
• Gvozdarus svetovidovi
• Gymnelus popovi
• Gymnodraco acuticeps
• Halibut
• harbour porpoise
• harlequin duck
• Harpagifer georgianus
• Harpagifer marionensis
• Harpagifer nybelini
• Harris's sparrow
• Heard Island shag
• hector's beaked whale
• Herring
• Heuglin's gull
• Histiodraco velifer
• hooded crow
• Horned lark
• Hourglass dolphin
• Hudsonian godwit
• Humpback whitefish
• Humped rockcod
• Ice amphipod
• iceland gull
• Iceland scallop
• Imperial cormorant
• Inconnu
• Indonotothenia cyanobrancha
• Isopod
• Isotealia antarctica
• Ivory gull
• Kelp fly
• kerguelen petrel
• Kerguelen spiny plunderfish
• Kerguelen tern
• Kittiwake
• kittlitz's murrelet
• Labidiaster annulatus
• Labidiaster radiosus
• Laevipilina antarctica
• Laevipilina theresae
• Lamprey
• Lampris immaculatus
• Lapland longspur
• Lasionycta leucocycla
• Lasionycta phaea
• Lasionycta staudingeri
• Laternula elliptica
• layard's beaked whale
• leach's storm petrel
• Leaf beetle
• least auklet
• Least cisco
• Lepidophthirus macrorhini
• lesser black-backed gull
• Lesser white-fronted goose
• Limacina helicina
• Lindbergichthys nudifrons
• Liparis fabricii
• Liparis gibbus
• Liparis liparis
• Liparis montagui
• Liparis tunicatus
• Lithodes macquariae
• Lithodes turkayi
• Little curlew
• Little stint
• lobe-lip notothen
• Long-billed dowitcher
• Long-tailed duck
• Longfin icedevil
• Longnose sucker
• Loon
• Lumpfish
• Lycodes vahlii
• Lycodichthys antarcticus
• Macquarie shag
• mallard
• marbled plunderfish
• Marbled rockcod
• Martensia martensi
• Mastigoteuthis psychrophila
• Mawson's dragonfish
• McKay's bunting
• Meadow pipit
• merlin
• Metridia longa
• Mite
• Mopsechiniscus franciscae
• Moroteuthopsis ingens
• Moroteuthopsis longimana
• Mosquito
• Moth
• mottled petrel
• Mountain hare
• Muksun
• Musculus niger
• muskrat
• Mussel
• Muusoctopus levis
• Myzostoma divisor
• naked-head toothfish
• Navaga
• Nematode
• Neocalanus cristatus
• Neocalanus plumchrus
• Neodraco lonnbergi
• Neodraco skottsbergi
• Neolithodes diomedeae
• Neolithodes yaldwyni
• Ninespine stickleback
• Northern blue
• northern bottlenose whale
• northern gannet
• northern harrier
• northern pintail
• northern royal albatross
• northern shoveler
• northern shrike
• Northern wheatear
• Notothenia coriiceps
• Nototheniops larseni
• Nototheniops loesha
• Nototheniops mizops
• Nototheniops nybelini
• Nototheniops tchizh
• Ocellated icefish
• Odontaster validus
• Oeneis alpina
• Oeneis jutta
• Oeneis melissa
• Oeneis norna
• Oeneis polixenes
• Oeneis rosovi
• Opisthoteuthis hardyi
• orange notothen
• Orange-footed sea cucumber
• Pagetodes antarcticus
• Pagetodes atkinsoni
• Pagetopsis macropterus
• Pagetopsis maculata
• Pallas's reed bunting
• Parachaenichthys charcoti
• Parachaenichthys georgianus
• Parafroneta marrineri
• Parakeet auklet
• Paralomis birsteini
• Paramoera walkeri
• Paranotothenia dewitti
• Parborlasia corrugata
• Patagonian toothfish
• Patagonotothen brevicauda
• Patagonotothen guntheri
• Patagonotothen shagensis
• Pectoral sandpiper
• pelagic cormorant
• Peregrine falcon
• Pike
• Pin-tailed snipe
• Pink-footed goose
• Ploughfish
• Plover
• Pogonophryne albipinna
• Pogonophryne barsukovi
• Pogonophryne bellingshausenensis
• Pogonophryne brevibarbata
• Pogonophryne cerebropogon
• Pogonophryne dewitti
• Pogonophryne eakini
• Pogonophryne favosa
• Pogonophryne immaculata
• Pogonophryne lanceobarbata
• Pogonophryne macropogon
• Pogonophryne maculiventrata
• Pogonophryne mentella
• Pogonophryne neyelovi
• Pogonophryne orangiensis
• Pogonophryne pallida
• Pogonophryne pavlovi
• Pogonophryne permitini
• Pogonophryne platypogon
• Pogonophryne sarmentifera
• Pogonophryne scotti
• Pogonophryne skorai
• Pogonophryne squamibarbata
• Pogonophryne stewarti
• Pogonophryne tronio
• Pogonophryne ventrimaculata
• Pond smelt
• Pontoporeia femorata
• Priapulus tuberculatospinosus
• Prion
• Prionodraco evansii
• Proechiniscus hanneae
• Prosipho tomlini
• Protophormia terraenovae
• Pseudosorensia atlantica
• Pseudotritonia quadrangularis
• Psilodraco breviceps
• Psychophora sabini
• Psychroteuthis glacialis
• Ptarmigan— Feathered feet act as snowshoes, and the P is silent.
• pygmy right whale
• Racovitzia glacialis
• Racovitzia harrissoni
• Rajella fyllae
• Razorbill
• Red-breasted goose
• red-breasted merganser
• red-legged kittiwake
• Red-necked grebe
• Red-necked stint
• redwing
• Ribbon seal
• Ribbon worm
• Right whale
• Ringed seal
• Rock sandpiper
• Ross seal
• Ross's goose
• Ross's gull
• Rossia megaptera
• Rossia moelleri
• Rotifer
• Rough-legged hawk
• Round whitefish
• Royal penguin
• ruff
• Sabine's gull
• Saduria sibirica
• Saffron cod
• Salmon
• salvin's albatross
• Salvin's prion
• sandhill crane
• Sandpiper
• Savannah sparrow
• Scopula frigidaria
• Scottnema lindsayae
• Sculpin
• Sea anemone
• Sea angel
• Sea butterfly
• Sea cucumber
• Sea pig
• Sea slug
• Sea spider
• Sea urchin
• Sei whale
• Semipalmated plover
• semipalmated sandpiper
• Sericosura mitrata
• sharp-spined notothen
• Sharp-tailed sandpiper
• short-eared owl
• short-tailed shearwater
• Shrew
• Shrimp
• shy albatross
• Siberian accentor
• siberian crane
• Siberian pipit
• Siberian sturgeon
• Sio nordenskjoldii
• Skate
• Skua
• slaty-backed gull
• slender scalyhead
• slender-billed prion
• Slimy sculpin
• Smith's longspur
• Snailfish
• Snares penguin
• Snow bunting
• Snow crab
• Snow petrel
• Snow sheep
• Snowy sheathbill
• soft-plumaged petrel
• Solariella antarctica
• Soleneiscus apicalis
• sooty shearwater
• South Georgia diving petrel
• South Georgia icefish
• South Georgia pintail
• South Georgia pipit
• South Georgia spiny plunderfish
• southern bottlenose whale
• southern right whale dolphin
• southern royal albatross
• Sowerby's beaked whale
• Spectacled porpoise
• Spider
• spiny icefish
• Sponge
• Spoon-billed sandpiper
• Spoonhead sculpin
• spotted notothen
• Spotted seal
• Springtail
• Starfish
• Stejneger's scoter
• Stenodus leucichthys
• Sterechinus neumayeri
• Storm petrel
• Striped rockcod
• Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis
• Subantarctic shearwater
• surf scoter
• Temminck's stint
• Tick
• Trematomus amphitreta
• Trematomus brachysoma
• Trematomus peninsulae
• triangular notothen
• Tritoniella belli
• tufted duck
• Tullbergia mediantarctica
• Tullbergia templei
• Tundra swan
• Turquet's octopus
• Twohorn sculpin
• unicorn icefish
• vega gull
• velvet scoter
• Viviparous eelpout
• Viviparous lizard
• Volcano sponge
• Vole
• Vomeridens infuscipinnis
• Wandering tattler
• Warble fly
• Weddell seal
• Western sandpiper
• whimbrel
• white wagtail
• white-capped albatross
• white-chinned petrel
• white-crowned sparrow
• white-headed petrel
• White-rumped sandpiper
• white-tailed eagle
• white-winged scoter
• Whitefish
• whooper swan
• Willow warbler
• wilson's snipe
• Wilson's warbler
• Wolffish
• wood frog
• Wood sandpiper
• yellow warbler
• Yellow-billed pintail
• Yellow-breasted bunting
• Yellow-eyed penguin
• yellow-nosed albatross
• yellowbelly rockcod
• yellowfin notothen

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Adelie penguin
• Albatross
• Antarctic toothfish
• Arctic char
• Arctic ground squirrel
• Arctic hare
• Arctic tern
• Bearded seal
• Chinstrap penguin
• Cod
• Dall sheep
• Dolphin
• Eider
• Ermine
• Fin whale
• Fur seal
• Gentoo penguin
• Giant petrel
• Greenland shark
• Grey seal
• Grizzly bear
• Gyrfalcon
• Harbor seal
• Hooded seal
• Icefish
• Jellyfish
• Krill— Also this game's namesake, and the base of the Antarctic food web.
• Lemming
• Leopard seal
• Lynx
• Macaroni penguin
• Minke whale
• Octopus
• Petrel
• Puffin
• Raven
• Red fox
• Rockhopper penguin
• Sea lion
• Sled dog— Not wild, but no animal has worked the Arctic longer.
• Snow goose
• Sperm whale
• Squid
• Tardigrade
• Wolverine

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Arctic fox
• Arctic wolf
• Beluga whale
• Blue whale
• Elephant seal
• Emperor penguin
• Harp seal
• Humpback whale
• King penguin
• Moose
• Musk ox
• Narwhal
• Orca
• Reindeer
• Seagull
• Snowy owl
• Whale

The most common answer on the board.

• Penguin
• Polar bear
• Seal
• Walrus