A Woman Placed an Octopus on Her Face for a Photo. Then It Bit Her. By Mindy Weisberger Sometimes people have to learn the hard way that octopuses belong in the ocean — not on your face.
Underwater Temple Revealed by Thailand's Extreme Drought By Isobel Whitcomb Thousands are flocking to the temple to pray and take pictures.
No E.T. Life Yet? Here's Why That's Important. By Kelsey Johnson The search for intelligent aliens has time and again come up empty. Perhaps that means they aren't out there.
Doctors Remove 526 Teeth from Boy's Cheek. How'd They Get There? By Rafi Letzter Doctors who extracted the teeth claimed that radiation from mobile towers, as well as genetics, may have played a role in causing the growth. But there's good reason to be skeptical.
Frogs, Toads, Lizards and Bats ... Were Found in Bagged Salads By Mindy Weisberger Eat more salad, they said. It's good for you, they said.
John Dillinger's Corpse to Be Dug Up and DNA-Tested to Settle Conspiracy Theory By Brandon Specktor The men who shot Dillinger may not have shot Dillinger, the gangster's relatives now say.
Mysterious Connecticut 'Vampire' Finally Identified 200 Years After Burial By Mindy Weisberger The unfortunate man was likely a poor farmer who died of tuberculosis.
Mysterious Radiation Cloud Over Europe Traced to Secret Russian Nuclear Accident By Tom Metcalfe The cloud held up to 100 times the level of radiation released after the Fukushima accident in Japan in 2011.
NASA Fed Apollo 11 Moon Rocks to Cockroaches (And Then Things Got Even Weirder) By Meghan Bartels The rocks were also dumped into fishbowls. And injected into mice. No, really.
Strange Forest 'Superorganism' Is Keeping This Vampire Tree Alive By Brandon Specktor By grafting their roots together in a hidden underground network, trees could be forming giant "superorganisms" that span entire forests.
Chihuahua Was Abducted by a Seagull. It Could Happen, Expert Says. By Mindy Weisberger Poor Gizmo likely never knew what nabbed him.
Alien Hunter Explains Why He Won't Be Going to Area 51 to Look for 'Little Green Men' By Jason Wright What started as an internet joke has generated a stern military warning after more than a million people "signed up" to "raid" Area 51.
Does Anyone Really Think the Moon Landing Was Faked? By Peter Knight The truth behind moon landing conspiracy theories.
Nearly 200K People Have Signed Up to Steal Alien Secrets from Area 51 in Late-Summer Raid By Brandon Specktor More than 200,000 Facebook users say they're interested in joining a raid on Nevada's infamous Area 51 air base this summer.
A Pair of Shipwrecked, WWII-Era Submarines Just Vanished from the Sea Near Malaysia By Brandon Specktor Scavengers can make millions of dollars by selling the scrap metal from old shipwrecks — no matter how many human remains are desecrated in the process.
These Odd 'Quasiparticles' Could Finally Unmask Dark Matter By Paul Sutter Tiny ripples called magnons could lure even a fleeting, lightweight dark matter particle out of hiding.
Photo of Sea Star's 'Butt' Goes Viral. Spoiler: That's No Butt. By Mindy Weisberger Oh. My. God. Look at its butt.
'What Would You Do If We Found Aliens?' Survey Asks By Jeanna Bryner If you find out we are not alone in the universe, how would you respond?
Handlers Thought This Owl Was Male for 23 Years —Then He Laid an Egg By Rafi Letzter Everyone, possibly even the owl, was surprised.
Whoa! Enormous 'Cotton Candy' Explosion in Kids' Chemistry Lab By Stephanie Pappas A classic chemistry demonstration gets supersized in a recent Twitter video.
