Tracks in the limestone on Monte Cònero seem to have been left behind by multiple sea turtles fleeing from an earthquake nearly 80 million years ago.

A white tiger believed to have Down syndrome, Kenny went viral online as the so-called "ugliest tiger in the world" — but the truth was much more heartbreaking.

Earlier studies suggested that the Tyrannosaurus rex died by age 30, but recent research into the growth rings in the leg bones of 17 T. rex specimens has revealed that the creatures continued to grow until they were at least 40.

Though William Joyce was born in America and spent much of his early life in Ireland and England, he moved to Germany during World War II to spread English-language fascist propaganda as "Lord Haw-Haw."

Halley's Comet is named after Edmond Halley, the British astronomer who first identified it as a periodic comet in the 18th century — but new research has revealed that a monk named Eilmer of Malmesbury actually discovered the comet's cyclical appearance 600 years earlier.

Witnesses who've allegedly encountered the Beast of Bray Road describe it as tall and hairy, with glowing eyes, long claws, and the stench of rotting meat.

Owen Hart was a promising WWE superstar throughout the 1990s, but his life and career were cut short when he fell to his death in front of a live audience during a pay-per-view event in 1999.

There are currently six accepted kingdoms of life, such as plants, animals, and fungi — and Prototaxites may have represented a seventh life form that's now extinct.

This mysterious concentration of iron has the mass of Mars and is longer than 463 million Earths lined up in a row.

From John Logie Baird's first-ever transmission of moving images to Philo Farnsworth's first fully electronic television system, the process of inventing television was a complicated one.