Penguins can’t fly but they sure can swim, with one African penguin seen swimming his little heart out on Tuesday. ...

A team headed by Hiroto Tanaka, an associate professor of fluid mechanics at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, used a host of camera angles to film penguins swimming and analyze their flipper ...

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.

The park officially started construction on the Penguin and Otter Swim Experience Center, the first facility of its kind in the U.S. Visitors will be able to swim alongside otters, engage with ...

It is a type of bird, but it is very different from other birds. Birds fly while penguins swim and dive. Penguins molt all their feathers at once, instead of replacing a few feathers at a time.

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.