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Learn how this midge has a unique strategy for surviving what most organisms couldn’t.

Picture an Antarctic animal and most people think of penguins, but there is a flightless midge, the only known insect native to Antarctica, that somehow survives the extreme climate. How the ...

Picture an Antarctic animal and most people think of penguins, but there is a flightless midge, the only known insect native to Antarctica, that somehow survives the extreme climate. How the ...

Penguins and seals may rule Antarctica’s waters, but its largest land animal is a 6mm midge that “freezes” and dries out come winter—only to thaw and keep going when it’s warmer.

10). A similar chemical process helps midges, a type of fly, survive extreme dehydration, suggesting it may be a survival technique broadly across the animal kingdom.