Since they prey on mostly aquatic animals, penguins have to be good swimmers. The fastest swimming penguin species is known to be the Pygoscelis Papua which can swim at speeds up to 22 miles per hour.
This is faster than the top swimming speed of the Emperor penguin, which averages speeds of 7.6 miles per hour.
When the first penguins were discovered in the French expedition, a voyager named Antonio Pigafetta described the birds as “strange geese.” At the time, historians believed that these creatures were found around the area of Punta Tombo in Argentina.
However, some also believe that penguins did not originate from Argentina, instead coming from the islands of Australia or New Zealand.
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