These snowflake-like creatures seem almost lifeless from afar. Get closer, and it's a completely different story.

"I've seen the Promised Land," Martin Luther King Jr. said in a speech in Memphis on April 3, 1968. He was assassinated the following day.

Experience the Bakken oil boom through the eyes of the people involved in this modern-day "gold rush."

By listening to cockpit recordings taken before Air Florida Flight 90 crashed, investigators can assess the sounds of the plane's engines. The results are telling.

For many climbers, Mt. McKinley presents the alluring chance to reach the top of our continent. But the dangers involved in doing so are very real and sometimes very sudden.

Mantis Shrimp have a knockout punch, delivering a killer blow as fast as a 22-caliber bullet.

Each member of the Roman legions was superbly disciplined and dangerously armed. They were also key players in Rome's global dominance.

A gunshot wound to the head leaves a white rhino calf clinging to life. But a caring wildlife veterinarian steps in to help and a special bond is formed.

The irony of speeding cameras is that they were invented by a Dutch race car driver - former Monte Carlo Rally winner Maurice Gatsonides. Here's why.

For a pilot, filing a UFO report can potentially hurt one's career. That didn't stop the captain of Aurigny Flight 544 from reporting what he saw en route to Alderney.