You may have heard penguins being referred to as the “birds of the sea,” but unlike most birds, they can’t actually fly. Instead, they’re truly remarkable swimmers, gliding effortlessly through the ...

The Fairy or Little Blue Penguin, the smallest penguin species, stands at 13-17 inches and weighs just over 1 kg. These ...

Named Kairuku for a Maori word, the language of the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand, that loosely translates to “diver who returns with food,” the penguins stood about 4 feet 2 inches tall ...

“Between not being able or allowed to use any lights and the tiny penguins continuously moving, rubbing their flippers on each other's backs and cleaning one another, it was really hard to get a ...

They determined that wing feathering is the main factor for generating thrust. Penguin wings, aka flippers, bear some resemblance to airplane wings covered with scaly feathers. To maximize ...

Penguins may seem cute to us, but they're excellent predators and very efficient foragers. Adélies have a feisty attitude too. They’ve been known to take on potential predators – seals or large ...

To preserve heat, they have a dense double layer of feathers – about 70 feathers per square inch – large fat reserves and, proportionally, smaller beaks and flippers compared to other penguins. This ...

While the 18 species of penguin differ, they are more alike than not, sharing their trademark flippers, appreciation for the sea, bowling pin shape and unmistakable waddle. Often living in large ...

Award winning image of the two fairy penguins 'flipper in flipper' which was taken in St Kilda, Australia Source: AAP Image/Tobias Baumgaertner/Ocean Photography Awards/PA Wire Understand the ...