I’ve since become very interested in both seabirds and I’m committed to guiding you through the differences between the penguin and the puffin. You may think that they’re birds of a feather ...

Their beaks grow thicker and brighter, white feathers replace black ... and other aerial pirates. Unlike penguin colonies, often cramped, loud, and peckish, a puffin gathering is mostly mellow ...

In winter puffins also moult away their wing feathers, rendering them flightless. They look so different and are so rarely seen in winter that in the past any scientists who did see them tended to ...

Dr Tom Hart explains how penguin feathers have evolved to allow penguins to survive in a cold environment. One of the ways penguins keep warm is by having a very waterproof outer feather and a dry ...

Penguins first evolved the ability to dive, like a puffin, and subsequently lost the ... their wing bones and a reduction of their flight feathers into tiny structures that help convert wings ...