Penguin Facts

- Penguins are birds.

- Their name is derived from Welsh terms ‘pen’, meaning head and ‘gwyn’, meaning white.

- Penguins do not live at the North Pole.

- Penguins mate for life.

- Their average lifespan is 15-20 years.

- Penguins have insulating layers of air, skin, and blubber.

- The Emperor penguin is the largest penguin.

- Penguins spend as much as 75% of their time underwater.

- Penguins like to slide across the ice on their big stomachs.

- Most penguins can swim about 15 miles per hour.

- There may be as many as 100 million penguins in the world.