She Climbed 180 Feet Into a Redwood—and Stayed for 738 Days
What would happen if you climbed into a tree for two weeks—and then realized you could no longer come down? On December 10, 1997, Julia Butterfly Hill…
She Disappeared After a Dubai Party. Ten Days Later, Two Very Different Stories Emerged
She vanished after a party in Dubai—and for 10 days, nobody knew where she was. Then Maria Kovalchuk was found alive but so badly injured that she…
A Gorilla Grabbed a Tourist’s Hair. Then Another Gorilla Charged In. But What Really Happened?
The video from Uganda looks like a tiny piece of human drama dropped into the middle of the jungle: one gorilla grabs a woman’s hair, another rushes…
They Thought He Would Never Walk. Then He Started Running on Two Legs
They wanted to remove both of his hind legs. Most people would have expected the little Boxer to spend the rest of his life unable to move…
For 87 Years, Nobody Could Find Amelia Earhart. Then This Image Appeared
For 86 years, Amelia Earhart’s plane seemed to have disappeared into the Pacific without leaving a trace. Then a deep-sea drone picked up something that looked disturbingly…
He Called 911 Twice From Inside His Van. Police Still Couldn’t Find Him
He was trapped, barely able to breathe, and the police were already looking for him. Kyle Plush used Siri to call 911 twice from inside his own…
This Tiny Animal Shrinks Its Brain in Winter. Then Its Nose Gets Bigger
Imagine surviving winter by making your brain smaller while making your nose bigger. That is what researchers found in the long-clawed shrew, a tiny mammal from Hokkaido,…
She Fell 3,000 Meters From a Plane. Then She Had to Survive the Amazon Alone
She fell from a plane at nearly 3,000 meters—and somehow woke up alive in the Amazon. But that was the easy part. Seventeen-year-old Juliane Koepcke had no…
Some of History’s Most Terrifying Monsters May Have Started With Something Real
What if some of the monsters people feared for centuries were born from things that actually existed? A strange creature seen in the deep ocean could become…
Astronauts Have Trouble Going to the Bathroom. The Real Problem May Be Much Bigger.
One of the biggest problems facing astronauts on a future trip to Mars may have nothing to do with rockets or radiation. It may begin the moment…