One year after being discovered, the Tapanuli orangutan is already on the brink of extinction.

Based on a 34-million-year-old skull, researchers have discovered that those gentle baleen whales likely used to be much more predatory.

The bug was finally removed fully after three separate doctor visits.

The beer is made from yeast that's at least 220 years old, found in a shipwreck at the bottom of the ocean.

After becoming the temporary home of Ernest Shackleton's fateful Endurance crew, Elephant Island became world-renowned.

Her book chronicles the life of Cudjo Lewis, the last surviving slave from the last slave ship to bring Africans to the United States.

The man stopped to relieve himself on the side of the road when he noticed the bear, and decided to take a selfie with it.

Peyote has been used for years by Native American Church members, but for the rest of the world, it's a Class 1 substance and illegal to use.

The man's body was found behind a wall put up to cover utilities in a women's bathroom.

She became one of the most decorated pigeons of World War I.

The station was the most opulent and beautiful that New York had to offer. It was also the most impractical.