While it may not look like much, the Judas cradle is believed to have spelled a sickening end for the heretics who ended up on the wrong side of its razor-sharp tip during the Spanish Inquisition.

Fossils uncovered in Australia paint a picture of the continent's largest known bird of prey, the Gaff's powerful eagle.

When she was 11, Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped on the way to school in Lake Tahoe by Phillip and Nancy Garrido and was held captive for the next 18 years until her miraculous rescue in 2009.

After six-year-old Adam Walsh was kidnapped and killed in 1981, his father John Walsh launched the show "America's Most Wanted" to prevent other parents from going through the same pain.

What was once considered a fairly common jellyfish fossil is actually an ancient sea anemone, a new study reveals.

On January 30, 1925, William Floyd Collins got stuck in a passageway deep inside Kentucky's Sand Cave, inciting a media spectacle that drew tens of thousands of people to the scene in hopes of seeing him rescued.

Despite its appearance, the "Bar Hill comb" may have been worn as an amulet rather than used for styling hair.

Researchers suggest the water molecules could provide insight into the "missing link" that explains the origins of water on Earth.

Franco Columbu came from a family of rural Italian shepherds but became an international star after winning multiple Mr. Universe and Mr. Olympia titles.

The new moai was found in the dried-up lake bed around the Rano Raraku volcano — and researchers believe there may be more statues nearby.