Meet the Gentoo penguin, the world’s fastest swimming bird. From diving skills to parenting habits, here are some fascinating ...

Gentoo penguins are the world's fastest swimming birds, thanks to the unique shape and structure of their wings. Credit: Priya Venkatesh/CC BY-SA 3.0 ...

When penguins hit the water, they become living torpedoes. Some species, like the Gentoo penguin, can swim up to 22 miles per hour—faster than any Olympic swimmer.

Penguin: 1. Killer whale: 0. Matt Karsten, 40, and his wife Anna, 32, have captured harrowing footage of a gentoo penguin narrowly escaping the jaws of a few hungry killer whales in the Antarctic.

A Gentoo Penguin can dive for food up to 450 times per day. Their swimming skills allow them to adapt to limited food and threats of predation from leopard seals, sea lions and orcas.

A Gentoo rookery in Saunders Island. 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 ...

Gentoo penguins typically spend most of their days hunting close to shore, but they're known to swim as far as 16 miles out to sea and dive nearly 655 feet below water to find food (from fish to ...

Cameras attached to gentoo penguins off the Falkland Islands revealed that, ... Those predictable paths make it easy to find a single penguin after a swim. So, in December 2013, ...

Gentoo penguins are the third largest penguin species alive. Adults weigh 11 to 17lb (five to eight kg) but how heavy they are depends on the phase in their annual cycle.