Military veteran Aaron James had lost his eye and half of his face in a high-voltage electrical accident.
Mike Elfenbein and colleagues discovered the massive reptile at Big Cypress National Preserve last week.
The bizarre scene looked like something out of an episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Archaeologists have made a number of signifcant discoveries at a cemetery dating back 3,500 years.
The findings could not only solve the mystery of the Moon's formation, but also the mystery of two large subsurface 'blobs'.
The image, which was recently featured on NASA's website, shows what looks like a giant cranium on the desert floor.
Just in time for Halloween, NASA has posted up an image of an eerie-looking formation in the gas giant's atmosphere.
Scientists have determined the whereabouts of a large chunk of Australia that broke off in the distant past.
A large animal filmed in a field in Colwyn Bay, Wales is being hailed as further evidence of exotic cats roaming the British wilds.
Pumpkin enthusiasts met up earlier this month to find out who had managed to grow the heaviest pumpkin.
The creature, whatever it is, has sparked some heated debate online, with many dismissing the image as a hoax.
The doll had been used to scare people into handing over money during a spate of recent robberies.
Physicists at CERN have conducted a major new experiment to find out whether antimatter falls up or down.
The enormous vegetable, which weighed in at almost 9kg, was unveiled at the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show on Friday.
The James Webb Space Telescope's latest discovery is significant, but have we really found life on an alien world ?
The man had been attempting to run across the entire Atlantic Ocean using a crude hamster wheel contraption.
A walker and his family recently witnessed a huge black cat wandering around the remote Dartmoor area.
Jupiter is pretty big, but there are other, much larger planets to be found lurking in the depths of the cosmos.
A bizarre story out of Peru this week concerns a village that has been plagued by mysterious assailants.
A professor of molecular biogerontology has indicated that humans could potentially live for much longer than we do now.