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Antarctica is considered a desert, with annual precipitation of only 200 mm (8 inches) along the coast and far less inland. Only cold-adapted organisms survive there, including many types of algae, animals (for example mites, nematodes, penguins, seals and tardigrades), bacteria, fungi, plants, and protista.
   Plant life on and around Antarctica is restricted to bryophytes  (mosses and liverworts),200 species of lichen, over 600 species of  algae (most of which are phytoplankton), seaweed, pearl-wort and  hair grass.    There are also no human populations native to the Antarctic  continent.here is nothing that lives permanently on the Antarctic continent  itself by way of animal life. There are no land animals that are  mammals, nor any reptiles or amphibians â¦ native to Antarctica. The  continent is too cold to support animal life.