An elephant is stalking the Pittsburgh Penguins. Various reports have said Kyle Dubas told his fellow NHL general managers he’d trade any player other than Sidney Crosby. More players might be on ...

Scientists are investigating how Adélie penguin colonies along the coast of Antarctica’s Ross Sea have adapted over the last 6,000 years. Jamie Wood Penguin poop is stinky but useful. In Antarctica, ...

Studies of ancient DNA have tended to focus on frozen land in the northern hemisphere, where woolly mammoths and bison roamed. Meanwhile, Antarctica has received relatively little attention. We set ...