Name an animal that lives in the Arctic or Antarctica

Last seen Dive #54. 687 accepted answers on the published sheet.

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Hint 1. 687 accepted answers. A strong pick is a single word, about 8 letters.

Hint 2 — a solid, typeable answer

Albatross

Hint 3 — a rare answer

Amphipod · 85 pts

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Amphipod Deep Cut 85 pts

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Best rare answers

  • Amphipod 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Barnacle 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Beetle 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Bloodworm 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Bluethroat 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Botfly 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Brant 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Bumblebee 85 pts · Deep Cut

Strong alternatives

  • Albatross 60 pts
  • Dolphin 60 pts
  • Eider 60 pts
  • Ermine 60 pts
  • Gyrfalcon 60 pts
  • Icefish 60 pts
  • Jellyfish 60 pts
  • Krill 60 pts

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Everyone else will type these. Ten points is a surface skim.

  • Penguin 10
  • Polar bear 10
  • Seal 10
  • Walrus 10

All accepted answers

Prompt 1 of 1

Name an animal that lives in the Arctic or Antarctica

● One in a Krillion · 1 ● Deep Cut · 620 ● Rare · 45 ● Schooler · 17 ● Plankton · 4
One in a Krillion +100 1 answer — tap to reveal
  • Antarctic midge +100
Deep Cut +85 620 answers — tap to reveal
  • Acanthodraco dewitti +85
  • Acetabulastoma arcticum +85
  • Acodontaster conspicuus +85
  • Admete clivicola +85
  • Aethotaxis mitopteryx +85
  • Aglantha digitale +85
  • Agyneta jacksoni +85
  • Agyneta nigripes +85
  • Akarotaxis nudiceps +85
  • Alaska blackfish +85
  • Alaska marmot +85
  • Alaska whitefish +85
  • Alvania zetlandica +85
  • american herring gull +85
  • American pipit +85
  • american wigeon +85
  • Amphipod +85
  • Anarta nigrolunata +85
  • Anasterias antarctica +85
  • Anasterias pedicellaris +85
  • Andrews' beaked whale +85
  • Anoxycalyx joubini +85
  • Antarctic jonasfish +85
  • Antarctic limpet +85
  • Antarctic plunderfish +85
  • Antarctic scale worm +85
  • Antarctic scallop +85
  • Antarctic silverfish +85
  • Antarctic spiny plunderfish +85
  • Antarctic tern +85
  • antipodean albatross +85
  • Arctia lapponica +85
  • Arctia opulenta +85
  • Arctic alligatorfish +85
  • Arctic bluet +85
  • Arctic grayling +85
  • Arctic redpoll +85
  • Arctic ringlet +85
  • Arctic warbler +85
  • Arctic woolly bear +85
  • arnoux's beaked whale +85
  • Artedidraco mirus +85
  • Artedidraco orianae +85
  • Artedidraco shackletoni +85
  • Asperoteuthis nesisi +85
  • Astarte borealis +85
  • atlantic white-sided dolphin +85
  • Atolla chuni +85
  • Auk +85
  • baird's sandpiper +85
  • Bald notothen +85
  • bar-tailed godwit +85
  • Barnacle +85
  • Barnacle goose +85
  • barrow's goldeneye +85
  • Bathydraco antarcticus +85
  • Bathydraco joannae +85
  • Bathydraco macrolepis +85
  • Bathydraco scotiae +85
  • Bathyechiniscus tetronyx +85
  • Bathyraja maccaini +85
  • Bean goose +85
  • Beetle +85
  • Bela ampla +85
  • Belgica albipes +85
  • Benthobrookula calypso +85
  • Bering cisco +85
  • Bering flounder +85
  • Beroe abyssicola +85
  • bigeye notothen +85
  • Black fly +85
  • Black rockcod +85
  • black turnstone +85
  • black-bellied plover +85
  • black-faced sheathbill +85
  • black-headed gull +85
  • black-tailed godwit +85
  • blackfin notothen +85
  • Bloodworm +85
  • blue petrel +85
  • Bluethroat +85
  • blunt scalyhead +85
  • Boloria chariclea +85
  • Boloria frigga +85
  • Boloria natazhati +85
  • Boloria polaris +85
  • Bombus balteatus +85
  • Bombus hyperboreus +85
  • Bombus jonellus +85
  • Bootlace worm +85
  • Botfly +85
  • Bowhead whale +85
  • Branchinecta gaini +85
  • Brant +85
  • bristle-thighed curlew +85
  • Brittle star +85
  • broad-billed prion +85
  • broad-billed sandpiper +85
  • Brünnich's guillemot +85
  • buff-breasted sandpiper +85
  • buller's albatross +85
  • Bumblebee +85
  • Butterfly +85
  • cackling goose +85
  • Calanoides acutus +85
  • Calanus hyperboreus +85
  • Callianira cristata +85
  • Calycopteryx mosleyi +85
  • canada goose +85
  • Canadian lemming +85
  • Capelin +85
  • Cephenemyia trompe +85
  • Ceratoserolis meridionalis +85
  • Ceratoserolis trilobitoides +85
  • Ceratozetella denaliensis +85
  • Chaetopterus antarcticus +85
  • Champsocephalus esox +85
  • Channichthys aelitae +85
  • Channichthys bospori +85
  • Channichthys irinae +85
  • Channichthys mithridatis +85
  • Channichthys panticapaei +85
  • Channichthys rhinoceratus +85
  • Channichthys richardsoni +85
  • Channichthys rugosus +85
  • Channichthys velifer +85
  • Chionobathyscus dewitti +85
  • Chionodraco hamatus +85
  • Chionodraco myersi +85
  • Chionodraco rastrospinosus +85
  • chryxus arctic +85
  • Cirroctopus mawsoni +85
  • Clam +85
  • Clathrina broendstedi +85
  • Clione antarctica +85
  • Cnemidocarpa finmarkiensis +85
  • Coccorhagidia keithi +85
  • cod icefish +85
  • Colias aquilonaris +85
  • Colias chippewa +85
  • Colias gigantea +85
  • Colias hecla +85
  • Colias johanseni +85
  • Colias nastes +85
  • Colias palaeno +85
  • Colias tyche +85
  • Colossendeis colossea +85
  • Colossendeis proboscidea +85
  • Comb jelly +85
  • Commerson dolphin +85
  • common cuckoo +85
  • common goldeneye +85
  • Common greenshank +85
  • Common guillemot +85
  • common gull +85
  • common merganser +85
  • common redpoll +85
  • Common redshank +85
  • common snipe +85
  • Copepod +85
  • Cormorant +85
  • Crabeater seal +85
  • crested auklet +85
  • Crozet shag +85
  • Cryodraco antarcticus +85
  • Cryodraco atkinsoni +85
  • Cryodraco pappenheimi +85
  • Cryothenia amphitreta +85
  • Cryptopygus cisantarcticus +85
  • Cryptopygus terranovus +85
  • curlew sandpiper +85
  • Cuthona antarctica +85
  • cuvier's beaked whale +85
  • Cyamus boopis +85
  • Cyclopteropsis mcalpini +85
  • Cygnodraco mawsoni +85
  • Dacodraco hunteri +85
  • dark toad plunderfish +85
  • deep-water spiny plunderfish +85
  • deepwater dragon +85
  • deepwater notothen +85
  • Dinonemertes arctica +85
  • Diving petrel +85
  • Dolloidraco longedorsalis +85
  • Dovekie +85
  • Dragonfish +85
  • dusky notothen +85
  • Dusky thrush +85
  • Eastern yellow wagtail +85
  • Eaton's pintail +85
  • Eatoniella caliginosa +85
  • Eatoniella demissa +85
  • Eatoniella kerguelenensis +85
  • Edwardsiella andrillae +85
  • Eelpout +85
  • Electrona antarctica +85
  • Emerald rockcod +85
  • emperor goose +85
  • Entephria flavicinctata +85
  • Erebia pandrose +85
  • Erebia polaris +85
  • Erebia rossii +85
  • Erect-crested penguin +85
  • Eudonia mawsoni +85
  • Eudorellopsis leuconi +85
  • Eulagisca gigantea +85
  • Eumicrotremus derjugini +85
  • Eumicrotremus spinosus +85
  • Euplokamis crinita +85
  • Eupodes wisei +85
  • Eurasian curlew +85
  • Eurasian dotterel +85
  • Eurasian oystercatcher +85
  • Eurasian wigeon +85
  • European golden plover +85
  • european storm petrel +85
  • Euxoa chimoensis +85
  • Euxoa churchillensis +85
  • fairy prion +85
  • Falsimargarita benthicola +85
  • Falsimargarita gemma +85
  • Falsimargarita thielei +85
  • Falsimohnia innocens +85
  • fieldfare +85
  • Flounder +85
  • Fourhorn sculpin +85
  • fox sparrow +85
  • Friesea tilbrooki +85
  • Fulmar prion +85
  • gadwall +85
  • Galiteuthis glacialis +85
  • Gerlachea australis +85
  • Giant Antarctic octopus +85
  • Glyptonotus antarcticus +85
  • Gobionotothen acuta +85
  • Gobionotothen angustifrons +85
  • Gobionotothen barsukovi +85
  • Gobionotothen marionensis +85
  • golden eagle +85
  • Golden-crowned sparrow +85
  • Gorgonocephalus eucnemis +85
  • gray petrel +85
  • Gray whale +85
  • Gray-cheeked thrush +85
  • Gray-crowned rosy finch +85
  • gray's beaked whale +85
  • graylag goose +85
  • Graytail skate +85
  • great black-backed gull +85
  • great cormorant +85
  • Great knot +85
  • great shearwater +85
  • Great-winged petrel +85
  • greater scaup +85
  • greater white-fronted goose +85
  • Green sea urchin +85
  • Greenland cockle +85
  • Grey rockcod +85
  • Grey-headed chickadee +85
  • Grey-tailed tattler +85
  • grizzly-polar bear hybrid +85
  • Guillemot +85
  • Gvozdarus balushkini +85
  • Gvozdarus svetovidovi +85
  • Gymnelus popovi +85
  • Gymnodraco acuticeps +85
  • Halibut +85
  • harbour porpoise +85
  • harlequin duck +85
  • Harpagifer georgianus +85
  • Harpagifer marionensis +85
  • Harpagifer nybelini +85
  • Harris's sparrow +85
  • Heard Island shag +85
  • hector's beaked whale +85
  • Herring +85
  • Heuglin's gull +85
  • Histiodraco velifer +85
  • hooded crow +85
  • Horned lark +85
  • Hourglass dolphin +85
  • Hudsonian godwit +85
  • Humpback whitefish +85
  • Humped rockcod +85
  • Ice amphipod +85
  • iceland gull +85
  • Iceland scallop +85
  • Imperial cormorant +85
  • Inconnu +85
  • Indonotothenia cyanobrancha +85
  • Isopod +85
  • Isotealia antarctica +85
  • Ivory gull +85
  • Kelp fly +85
  • kerguelen petrel +85
  • Kerguelen spiny plunderfish +85
  • Kerguelen tern +85
  • Kittiwake +85
  • kittlitz's murrelet +85
  • Labidiaster annulatus +85
  • Labidiaster radiosus +85
  • Laevipilina antarctica +85
  • Laevipilina theresae +85
  • Lamprey +85
  • Lampris immaculatus +85
  • Lapland longspur +85
  • Lasionycta leucocycla +85
  • Lasionycta phaea +85
  • Lasionycta staudingeri +85
  • Laternula elliptica +85
  • layard's beaked whale +85
  • leach's storm petrel +85
  • Leaf beetle +85
  • least auklet +85
  • Least cisco +85
  • Lepidophthirus macrorhini +85
  • lesser black-backed gull +85
  • Lesser white-fronted goose +85
  • Limacina helicina +85
  • Lindbergichthys nudifrons +85
  • Liparis fabricii +85
  • Liparis gibbus +85
  • Liparis liparis +85
  • Liparis montagui +85
  • Liparis tunicatus +85
  • Lithodes macquariae +85
  • Lithodes turkayi +85
  • Little curlew +85
  • Little stint +85
  • lobe-lip notothen +85
  • Long-billed dowitcher +85
  • Long-tailed duck +85
  • Longfin icedevil +85
  • Longnose sucker +85
  • Loon +85
  • Lumpfish +85
  • Lycodes vahlii +85
  • Lycodichthys antarcticus +85
  • Macquarie shag +85
  • mallard +85
  • marbled plunderfish +85
  • Marbled rockcod +85
  • Martensia martensi +85
  • Mastigoteuthis psychrophila +85
  • Mawson's dragonfish +85
  • McKay's bunting +85
  • Meadow pipit +85
  • merlin +85
  • Metridia longa +85
  • Mite +85
  • Mopsechiniscus franciscae +85
  • Moroteuthopsis ingens +85
  • Moroteuthopsis longimana +85
  • Mosquito +85
  • Moth +85
  • mottled petrel +85
  • Mountain hare +85
  • Muksun +85
  • Musculus niger +85
  • muskrat +85
  • Mussel +85
  • Muusoctopus levis +85
  • Myzostoma divisor +85
  • naked-head toothfish +85
  • Navaga +85
  • Nematode +85
  • Neocalanus cristatus +85
  • Neocalanus plumchrus +85
  • Neodraco lonnbergi +85
  • Neodraco skottsbergi +85
  • Neolithodes diomedeae +85
  • Neolithodes yaldwyni +85
  • Ninespine stickleback +85
  • Northern blue +85
  • northern bottlenose whale +85
  • northern gannet +85
  • northern harrier +85
  • northern pintail +85
  • northern royal albatross +85
  • northern shoveler +85
  • northern shrike +85
  • Northern wheatear +85
  • Notothenia coriiceps +85
  • Nototheniops larseni +85
  • Nototheniops loesha +85
  • Nototheniops mizops +85
  • Nototheniops nybelini +85
  • Nototheniops tchizh +85
  • Ocellated icefish +85
  • Odontaster validus +85
  • Oeneis alpina +85
  • Oeneis jutta +85
  • Oeneis melissa +85
  • Oeneis norna +85
  • Oeneis polixenes +85
  • Oeneis rosovi +85
  • Opisthoteuthis hardyi +85
  • orange notothen +85
  • Orange-footed sea cucumber +85
  • Pagetodes antarcticus +85
  • Pagetodes atkinsoni +85
  • Pagetopsis macropterus +85
  • Pagetopsis maculata +85
  • Pallas's reed bunting +85
  • Parachaenichthys charcoti +85
  • Parachaenichthys georgianus +85
  • Parafroneta marrineri +85
  • Parakeet auklet +85
  • Paralomis birsteini +85
  • Paramoera walkeri +85
  • Paranotothenia dewitti +85
  • Parborlasia corrugata +85
  • Patagonian toothfish +85
  • Patagonotothen brevicauda +85
  • Patagonotothen guntheri +85
  • Patagonotothen shagensis +85
  • Pectoral sandpiper +85
  • pelagic cormorant +85
  • Peregrine falcon +85
  • Pike +85
  • Pin-tailed snipe +85
  • Pink-footed goose +85
  • Ploughfish +85
  • Plover +85
  • Pogonophryne albipinna +85
  • Pogonophryne barsukovi +85
  • Pogonophryne bellingshausenensis +85
  • Pogonophryne brevibarbata +85
  • Pogonophryne cerebropogon +85
  • Pogonophryne dewitti +85
  • Pogonophryne eakini +85
  • Pogonophryne favosa +85
  • Pogonophryne immaculata +85
  • Pogonophryne lanceobarbata +85
  • Pogonophryne macropogon +85
  • Pogonophryne maculiventrata +85
  • Pogonophryne mentella +85
  • Pogonophryne neyelovi +85
  • Pogonophryne orangiensis +85
  • Pogonophryne pallida +85
  • Pogonophryne pavlovi +85
  • Pogonophryne permitini +85
  • Pogonophryne platypogon +85
  • Pogonophryne sarmentifera +85
  • Pogonophryne scotti +85
  • Pogonophryne skorai +85
  • Pogonophryne squamibarbata +85
  • Pogonophryne stewarti +85
  • Pogonophryne tronio +85
  • Pogonophryne ventrimaculata +85
  • Pond smelt +85
  • Pontoporeia femorata +85
  • Priapulus tuberculatospinosus +85
  • Prion +85
  • Prionodraco evansii +85
  • Proechiniscus hanneae +85
  • Prosipho tomlini +85
  • Protophormia terraenovae +85
  • Pseudosorensia atlantica +85
  • Pseudotritonia quadrangularis +85
  • Psilodraco breviceps +85
  • Psychophora sabini +85
  • Psychroteuthis glacialis +85
  • Ptarmigan +85
  • pygmy right whale +85
  • Racovitzia glacialis +85
  • Racovitzia harrissoni +85
  • Rajella fyllae +85
  • Razorbill +85
  • Red-breasted goose +85
  • red-breasted merganser +85
  • red-legged kittiwake +85
  • Red-necked grebe +85
  • Red-necked stint +85
  • redwing +85
  • Ribbon seal +85
  • Ribbon worm +85
  • Right whale +85
  • Ringed seal +85
  • Rock sandpiper +85
  • Ross seal +85
  • Ross's goose +85
  • Ross's gull +85
  • Rossia megaptera +85
  • Rossia moelleri +85
  • Rotifer +85
  • Rough-legged hawk +85
  • Round whitefish +85
  • Royal penguin +85
  • ruff +85
  • Sabine's gull +85
  • Saduria sibirica +85
  • Saffron cod +85
  • Salmon +85
  • salvin's albatross +85
  • Salvin's prion +85
  • sandhill crane +85
  • Sandpiper +85
  • Savannah sparrow +85
  • Scopula frigidaria +85
  • Scottnema lindsayae +85
  • Sculpin +85
  • Sea anemone +85
  • Sea angel +85
  • Sea butterfly +85
  • Sea cucumber +85
  • Sea pig +85
  • Sea slug +85
  • Sea spider +85
  • Sea urchin +85
  • Sei whale +85
  • Semipalmated plover +85
  • semipalmated sandpiper +85
  • Sericosura mitrata +85
  • sharp-spined notothen +85
  • Sharp-tailed sandpiper +85
  • short-eared owl +85
  • short-tailed shearwater +85
  • Shrew +85
  • Shrimp +85
  • shy albatross +85
  • Siberian accentor +85
  • siberian crane +85
  • Siberian pipit +85
  • Siberian sturgeon +85
  • Sio nordenskjoldii +85
  • Skate +85
  • Skua +85
  • slaty-backed gull +85
  • slender scalyhead +85
  • slender-billed prion +85
  • Slimy sculpin +85
  • Smith's longspur +85
  • Snailfish +85
  • Snares penguin +85
  • Snow bunting +85
  • Snow crab +85
  • Snow petrel +85
  • Snow sheep +85
  • Snowy sheathbill +85
  • soft-plumaged petrel +85
  • Solariella antarctica +85
  • Soleneiscus apicalis +85
  • sooty shearwater +85
  • South Georgia diving petrel +85
  • South Georgia icefish +85
  • South Georgia pintail +85
  • South Georgia pipit +85
  • South Georgia spiny plunderfish +85
  • southern bottlenose whale +85
  • southern right whale dolphin +85
  • southern royal albatross +85
  • Sowerby's beaked whale +85
  • Spectacled porpoise +85
  • Spider +85
  • spiny icefish +85
  • Sponge +85
  • Spoon-billed sandpiper +85
  • Spoonhead sculpin +85
  • spotted notothen +85
  • Spotted seal +85
  • Springtail +85
  • Starfish +85
  • Stejneger's scoter +85
  • Stenodus leucichthys +85
  • Sterechinus neumayeri +85
  • Storm petrel +85
  • Striped rockcod +85
  • Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis +85
  • Subantarctic shearwater +85
  • surf scoter +85
  • Temminck's stint +85
  • Tick +85
  • Trematomus amphitreta +85
  • Trematomus brachysoma +85
  • Trematomus peninsulae +85
  • triangular notothen +85
  • Tritoniella belli +85
  • tufted duck +85
  • Tullbergia mediantarctica +85
  • Tullbergia templei +85
  • Tundra swan +85
  • Turquet's octopus +85
  • Twohorn sculpin +85
  • unicorn icefish +85
  • vega gull +85
  • velvet scoter +85
  • Viviparous eelpout +85
  • Viviparous lizard +85
  • Volcano sponge +85
  • Vole +85
  • Vomeridens infuscipinnis +85
  • Wandering tattler +85
  • Warble fly +85
  • Weddell seal +85
  • Western sandpiper +85
  • whimbrel +85
  • white wagtail +85
  • white-capped albatross +85
  • white-chinned petrel +85
  • white-crowned sparrow +85
  • white-headed petrel +85
  • White-rumped sandpiper +85
  • white-tailed eagle +85
  • white-winged scoter +85
  • Whitefish +85
  • whooper swan +85
  • Willow warbler +85
  • wilson's snipe +85
  • Wilson's warbler +85
  • Wolffish +85
  • wood frog +85
  • Wood sandpiper +85
  • yellow warbler +85
  • Yellow-billed pintail +85
  • Yellow-breasted bunting +85
  • Yellow-eyed penguin +85
  • yellow-nosed albatross +85
  • yellowbelly rockcod +85
  • yellowfin notothen +85
Rare +60 45 answers — tap to reveal
  • Adelie penguin +60
  • Albatross +60
  • Antarctic toothfish +60
  • Arctic char +60
  • Arctic ground squirrel +60
  • Arctic hare +60
  • Arctic tern +60
  • Bearded seal +60
  • Chinstrap penguin +60
  • Cod +60
  • Dall sheep +60
  • Dolphin +60
  • Eider +60
  • Ermine +60
  • Fin whale +60
  • Fur seal +60
  • Gentoo penguin +60
  • Giant petrel +60
  • Greenland shark +60
  • Grey seal +60
  • Grizzly bear +60
  • Gyrfalcon +60
  • Harbor seal +60
  • Hooded seal +60
  • Icefish +60
  • Jellyfish +60
  • Krill +60
  • Lemming +60
  • Leopard seal +60
  • Lynx +60
  • Macaroni penguin +60
  • Minke whale +60
  • Octopus +60
  • Petrel +60
  • Puffin +60
  • Raven +60
  • Red fox +60
  • Rockhopper penguin +60
  • Sea lion +60
  • Sled dog +60
  • Snow goose +60
  • Sperm whale +60
  • Squid +60
  • Tardigrade +60
  • Wolverine +60
Schooler +30 17 answers — tap to reveal
  • Arctic fox +30
  • Arctic wolf +30
  • Beluga whale +30
  • Blue whale +30
  • Elephant seal +30
  • Emperor penguin +30
  • Harp seal +30
  • Humpback whale +30
  • King penguin +30
  • Moose +30
  • Musk ox +30
  • Narwhal +30
  • Orca +30
  • Reindeer +30
  • Seagull +30
  • Snowy owl +30
  • Whale +30
Plankton +10 4 answers — tap to reveal
  • Penguin +10
  • Polar bear +10
  • Seal +10
  • Walrus +10