A rare all-black gentoo penguin has been spotted on Rongé Island, Antarctica. Gentoos typically sport the more traditional ...

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 ...

Whereas top-level athletes can swim at 8 kph or so, the speed of gentoo penguins--the fastest penguin variety--is known to reach more than 30 kph. The penguins’ secret lies in the motion of ...

a video camera attached to the back of a gentoo penguin swimming off the Falkland Islands captures a violent underwater scuffle where penguins steal food right out of each other’s beaks.

Dr. Ann Duncan and the Detroit Zoological Society team conduct a pioneering study in the Falkland Islands to protect wild ...

Visitors to Ocean Park over the Christmas weekend were able to catch the first glimpses of the 15 gentoo penguin chicks that hatched over the past two months at the South Pole Spectacular exhibit.

where wild gentoos can dive hundreds of feet and swim up to 22mph. “We believe that urgent action is needed to address their welfare. The gentoo penguins at the aquarium, part of a captive ...

The penguins are kept in an enclosure with up to 7ft of water depth in which to dive. Campaigners argue this is especially shocking because gentoo penguins can dive up to 600ft in the wild.

The gentoo penguin is the fastest swimming penguin, reaching 22mph. Emperor penguin chicks have to survive some of the coldest conditions on earth.