Every year a large number of murders go unsolved, but some gain such infamy that they remain in the public mind for many years to come. This is a list of the ten most famous murders in modern history. The one rule I had for this list was that there had be a body - [...]

A paleontologist cleans the fossilized bird cranium at Peru’s National History Museum in Lima on Friday. (Martin Mejia/Associated Press)
The unusually intact fossilized skull of a giant, toothed sea bird that died millions of years ago has been found on Peru’s arid southern coast, researchers said Friday.
The fossil is the best-preserved cranium ever found of a [...]

These animals have a high potent toxic that is able to kill humans, so be highly cautious if you ever meet one of these creatures.

These are just some of the animals that are able to kill humans with their venom. There are hundreds of other animals that can be deadly to humans, so beware of [...]

BUTTERFLY sex is not as elegant an affair as you might think. It seems that male monarch butterflies conduct an all-out sperm war based on a crude measure of how much sperm is stored inside a female from a previous mating.

During sex the males physically restrain the females for an entire day while injecting them [...]

1. Superman Defeats the Ku Klux Klan

In the 1940s, The Adventures of Superman was a radio sensation. Kids across the country huddled around their sets as the Man of Steel leapt off the page and over the airwaves. Although Superman had been fighting crime in print since 1938, the weekly audio episodes fleshed out his [...]

They may look like regular folks frolicking in the water on a hot summer’s day, but they’re really much more remarkable than that. They are the Moken, a group of about 2,000 to 3,000 people who are born, live and die traveling the Andaman Sea around Southern Thailand and Myanmar (Burma). Settling only during monsoon [...]