Do penguins live in the arctic or antarctic?

Question

Do penguins live in the arctic or antarctic?

Answer 1

Today, mostly circum-Antarctic.  There is one equatorial species today (Galapagos penguin), but in the fossil record, there are several that would have lived in the tropics.  Still, they would have mostly been south of the Equator.

The penguin-like birds in the Northern Hemisphere are auks - a group that includes puffins, murres, and razorbills.  There are extinct species that were flightless, but those still alive can fly.  Some of them do look like somewhat like penguins, but they're unrelated.

Some of the extinct tropical penguins, by the way, were about as tall as an adult human.

Answer 2

Just thought you might like to know, I live in a city of 4 million people (Melbourne, Australia) and we have penguins living on one of our beaches (St. Kilda).  We can also drive about and hour and a half and see thousands of fairy penguins coming ashore at dusk every evening.  They are such gorgeous funny little things.

Answer 3

Antartic is where penguins live... polar bears in the artic

Answer 4

Antarctia and coastal regions of southern South America, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Herd Island and other islands of the deep southern hemisphere.  The only other place they are found is zoos.

Answer 5

antarctic mostly