Life is short, but when compared with the lifespans of some creatures, human lives last almost an eternity.
One witness managed to film the blazing fireball as it lit up the night sky in spectacular fashion on September 2nd.
The man had been attempting to run across the entire Atlantic Ocean using a crude hamster wheel contraption.
Folk remedies have been around for as long as human society, but do they still have a place in the 21st-Century ?
A controversial new study based on an 8.7-million-year-old skull could serve to rewrite the history books.
When Eugene Hendrick decided to fool his town into thinking Bigfoot was visiting, the prank ended up enduring for decades.
A new genetic data analysis has revealed that our ancestors were almost completely wiped out.
A translator who had been visiting the loch managed to capture an image of something emerging from the water near Dores.
Officers couldn't believe their eyes when they spotted the vehicle cruising along with the huge bovine riding shotgun.
A man from Switzerland decided to see what would happen if he put his head into one of the world's most powerful fountains.
An individual thought to have been living wild for years has been sighted by people hiking in the region.
Researchers have determined that previous findings concerning the Iceman's ancestry were likely to be wrong.
A man in Mexico City recently survived being shot twice in the head thanks to a freak combination of circumstances.
Recent footage from a zoo in China suggested that the sun bear was a man in a suit - but actually it wasn't.
Scientists have discovered evidence of a previously unknown period of low temperatures over 1.1 million years ago.
The popular 1980s movie robot has been brought back to life thanks to the tireless efforts of Ryan Howard.
A woman who had been away on a four-day trip returned to her home to find an unexpected visitor in the bathroom.
The freak incident occurred when the mother-of-two chugged multiple bottles of water in a short space of time.
A professor of molecular biogerontology has indicated that humans could potentially live for much longer than we do now.
A look at some of the early work of J. Robert Oppenheimer - the man known as the father of the atomic bomb.