Histories

Portrait of Klara Baić

A Single Mother Who Saved Two Brothers From Certain Death

Boy believed to be Bobby Dunbar (1913)

DNA Solved What Courts and Newspapers Got Wrong in 1912

Ada Blackjack and the 4 men and a cat named Vic group portrait

How Ada Blackjack Endured Months Alone on Wrangel Island

Photos of Jonas Edward Salk

The Man Who Saved a Generation Without Earning a Dollar From It

A combined photo of Mary Vincent and Lawrence Singleton

Teen Girl Survives After Losing Both Arms and Shoved Down Into a Drainage to Die

Stories

Side by side image of a computer virus and a USB drive

The McDonald’s MP3 Giveaway That Came With a Hidden Trojan

Headshot of Jonathan Enriquez

Arizona Dad Killed Newborn After Becoming Angry Over Her Crying

Photo of Jesica Santillan

A Second Surgery Couldn’t Undo the First Mistake

Google.com bought for 12 dollars by Sanmay Ved

The Day Google Lost Its Domain — And Paid $6,006.13 to Get It Back

Side by side image of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) vehicle and dollar bills

Homeless but Honest: The B.C. Man Who Returned $2,400 and Refused a $5,000 Reward

Steve Fugate Love Life Walk

He Walked Across the U.S. Nine Times After Losing His Two Children

Cloe Woods and her grandma Claudia

When a 5-Year-Old Girl Saved Her Blind Grandmother and Dog From a Burning Home

Tom Boyd stacking goods at the supermarket

One Company Let an Autistic Worker Go. Another Offered Him a Job.

Animals

Bornean orangutan ken Allen

Ken Allen: The Orangutan Who Outsmarted the Zoo

Secretary Bird Flying

The Bird That Runs Before It Flies

Image of a lion known as Scarface of Kenya’s Maasai Mara

Scarface: The Lion Who Ruled the Mara

Leopard and Cow friendship in Gujarat

The Leopard That Kept Coming Back to a Cow

Images of Lala, the king penguin

When a Rescued Penguin Chose to Stay