Today is World Penguin Day!
This day is celebrated on April 25 because it's around this time of year that Adelie penguins migrate to their breeding colonies around this time every year.
Penguins are flightless aquatic birds that mostly live in the Southern Hemisphere. In fact, only one species of penguin lives north of the Equator: the Galapagos penguin. Penguin diets comprise of sea animals, like fish, squid, and krill. They spend half their lives waddling about being penguins on land, and the other swimming around, being penguins in the water.
The word "penguin" started appearing in the 16th century as a synonym for another bird: the great auk. They are not actually related. There have been many theories about where the word "penguin" came from, from Latin, from Welsh, etc.
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