Eleven young Humboldt penguin chicks have taken to the water for their first swimming lesson at ZSL London Zoo. The chicks, named McVitie, Swiftie, Gonzo, Pepe, Beaker, Coco, Bob, Thérèse ...

Getting a penguin’s-eye view of the ocean is now a reality. An international team of researchers have developed PenguCams, an new animal-borne camera system that can help track how much prey ...

The world’s biggest iceberg is moving towards a remote island of Antarctica, which is home to millions of penguins and ...

But surfers on the south coast were in for a surprise, after discovering a rather unexpected animal on the beach – an emperor penguin. Aaron Fowler, a surfer based at Ocean Beach in Denmark ...

He wondered: Maybe those bubbles help penguins swim faster. Over beer in a pub, Hughes bounced his hypothesis off his friend John Davenport, a marine biologist at University College Cork in Ireland.

A piece from the American Institute of Physics points out that Gentoo penguins are the fastest swimming birds in the world, and that ability comes from their unique and sophisticated wings.