One year after being discovered, the Tapanuli orangutan is already on the brink of extinction.

Based on a 34-million-year-old skull, researchers have discovered that those gentle baleen whales likely used to be much more predatory.

The beer is made from yeast that's at least 220 years old, found in a shipwreck at the bottom of the ocean.

After becoming the temporary home of Ernest Shackleton's fateful Endurance crew, Elephant Island became world-renowned.

Her book chronicles the life of Cudjo Lewis, the last surviving slave from the last slave ship to bring Africans to the United States.

Peyote has been used for years by Native American Church members, but for the rest of the world, it's a Class 1 substance and illegal to use.

The station was the most opulent and beautiful that New York had to offer. It was also the most impractical.

Though they call themselves a Catholic sect, hardly any part of the Palmarian Church seems in line with Catholic values.

With just a few basic supplies and an empty ice chest, Jose Alvarenga survived for over a year at sea by himself.

A lawsuit claims that the nursing home knew of the woman's affliction, and did nothing to stop it.