"This woman had all the supplies she needed to cause mass destruction at her disposal."

"These are the oldest solid materials ever found, and they tell us about how stars formed in our galaxy. They're solid samples of stars."

Despite facing the conservative culture of 1980s Iran, Maryam Molkara helped convince the nation’s leader to make sex reassignment procedures legal — a legacy that remains to this day.

Following decades of captive breeding, 130-year-old Diego — once just one of three living males left of his species — will finally be getting some rest.

A government spokesperson said the camels have caused "significant damage to infrastructure" and become a "danger to families and communities."

Sadly, the astronauts weren't allowed to taste the cookies before the batch was sent down to Earth for further research.

When Helen Jewett was found dead from hatchet wounds to the head inside the brothel where she worked in 1836, the newspapers went wild with her story and helped create sensational journalism as we know it today.

"Loss of such unique and charismatic megafauna representative of freshwater ecosystems is a reprehensible and an irreparable loss," one scientist said.

"I was really concerned there wasn't a lot of media coverage and not a lot of people donating," said Kaylen Ward of her bold campaign that raised a huge sum in mere days.

The research team has compared the rare discovery to "Hanukkah gelt," a customary gift of gold-foil chocolate coins given to children during the Jewish holiday.

Zinaida Portnova was a typical teenager in Belarus, but when the Nazis invaded in 1941, she became a deadly Soviet resistance fighter who would be awarded the nation's highest honor.