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Police have identified Colleen Audrey Rice as the victim of a 1971 homicide in Arizona after crowdfunding for a DNA genealogy test.

Astrochelys rogerbouri likely went extinct over 600 years ago, but it could help researchers save today's tortoises.

In December 2022, a beachcomber stumbled across a 12-million-year-old whale skull while walking along Matoaka Beach in the Chesapeake Bay.

On February 1, 2003, NASA's STS-107 mission ended in tragedy when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon re-entry over Texas, killing all seven crew members aboard.

In January 2016, American student Otto Warmbier was arrested in North Korea — and he was later returned to the U.S. with a deadly brain injury.

A woman and her son were killed in a polar bear attack in Alaska. Locals say the bear terrorized the small village by chasing residents.

From a 6th-century warrior statue in Kyrgyzstan to an ancient Maya city in Mexico, these were the most important historical discoveries of the year.

A hippo attacked two-year-old Iga Paul and nearly devoured him, before a bystander threw stones at the animal and it released the boy.

In the real story behind "The Sound of Music," Georg and Maria von Trapp fled the Nazis in Austria along with their nine children in 1938 before touring the U.S. as singers.

Photographer Alper Yesiltas reimagines portraits of famous figures like Michael Jackson and Princess Diana to reveal how they'd look if they were still alive today.