You may have heard penguins being referred to as the “birds of the sea,” but unlike most birds, they can’t actually fly. Instead, they’re truly remarkable swimmers, gliding effortlessly through the ...

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.

Getting a penguin’s-eye view of the ocean is now ... and distortion to offer a practical tool to estimate size underwater. The study found that the correction factors were significantly ...

There, he uses a blend of technology and ecology to showcase the underwater world from a ... ="301"] Still from footage showing a gentoo penguin swimming away with a stolen squid.

To maximize efficiency underwater instead of in the air, penguin wings are shorter and flatter than those of flying birds. The animals can adjust swimming posture by active wing feathering ...

He wondered: Maybe those bubbles help penguins swim faster. Over beer in a pub ... they analyzed hours of underwater footage and discovered that the penguins were doing something that engineers ...