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The Antarctic waters where krill reside are -1° in temperature. Krill can survive in such cold temperatures because their bodies do not produce heat, they are the same temperature as the water around them. All Krill’s enzymes work best at this temperature and if the waters were to start to raise in temperature even a couple of degrees, the health of krill would start to decline

Krill weigh more than twice the total weight of all humans on earth

A female krill lays 10,000 eggs at one time

Each swarm of krill weighs an estimated amount of 2,000,000 tons, this is the equivalent of 28.5 million human beings

Krill are about the size of your pinky

Krill travel in swarms so dense that they can be seen from space

Antarctic krill are 1 of 85 different specimen of krill in the world’s oceans and yet this tiny zooplankton make up the world’s largest single specimen animal biomass

Without krill, there would be no fuel to the engine that runs the earths marine eco system and most of the life forms in the Antarctic would disappear

Krill come to the surface at night to eat phytoplankton to avoid predators in the daytime