1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (193+ words) It’s not uncommon for a 9-year-old child to love dinosaurs, but it is quite rare for someone so young to have opened a museum of their own dedicated to fossils and natural history. Anderson Taylor, now 11, was recently awarded the Guinness…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (196+ words) A boy’s scream can be heard in the distance on body camera footage released by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources showing how rescue teams last week found two women and a nine-year-old boy who had been stranded for three…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (206+ words) At each of the bomb sites⁠ — among the scattered detritus of pipe fragments, shell casings, broken plaster, glass, nuts, and bolts ⁠— police kept encountering one thing that was not like the others: a partially consumed throat lozenge. Finding a used…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (202+ words) On June 12, 2009, a man checked into a hotel in Sligo, Ireland under the name Peter Bergmann and a nonexistent Austrian address. He paid cash every night. Over the next three days, cameras around town filmed him leaving the hotel with…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (207+ words) David Cifaldi and two of his friends had been hiking for about seven hours up Montana’s tallest mountain on July 20 when he slipped on a rock and fell. He saw one of his trekking poles on the ground, but the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (205+ words) An old school toilet is not a typical mode of transport on which to hit the high seas but that did not deter friends Alex Craig and Paul Graham from giving it a go. The duo crossed the stretch of…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (204+ words) Harvard scientist Avi Loeb has been doing interviews all week because of his take on 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object that has captured public fascination. The astronomy community generally agrees it’s a comet — potentially the oldest one ever seen. But Loeb…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (204+ words) A few miles from where I live is a small graveyard with one tombstone more decorated than the rest. Offerings of trinkets and candles tell a story about a woman mourned by people who never knew her. No story from…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (204+ words) A devastating farm accident when he was just two and a half years old became the beginning of an extraordinary journey of resilience, determination and self-belief. After losing both his arms in a grain auger accident on his family's Ohio…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (205+ words) The dream of discovering buried treasure came true for a California couple who found a real pot of gold while walking their dog. The largest such hoard ever found in the U.S. is comprised of 1,411 gold coins, minted between 1847 and 1894, worth…...