Conservationists and biologists alike are optimistic that these findings could help revive what was once thought to be a lost species.Ron WootenOften mistaken for coyote, these wild dogs possess the genes of a species of wolf thought to be extinct in the wild. Red wolves were declared extinct in the wild in the 1980s, but a new discovery shows that their DNA persists in a roving pack of feral dogs on Galveston Island, Texas.

The Wall Of Jericho, West Bank A. Sobkowski/Wikimedia Commons The Wall of Jericho, of Battle of Jericho fame, didn’t actually come tumbling down — or at least, not this one. The wall that the Israelites reportedly destroyed in the Book of Joshua would have been a construction from the Bronze Age. Wikimedia Commons The original Neolithic Wall of Jericho is considerably older, dating perhaps as far back as 8,000 BCE, when the end of the Ice Age made it possible for migrating nomads to settle there permanently.

"The only reason I'm here is because I had been messing around with a white lady," Walter McMillian said from death row.Equal Justice InitiativeWalter McMillian spent six years on Alabama’s death row for a murder he didn’t commit. When Walter McMillian was a 12-year-old black boy in Monroe County, Alabama — where Harper Lee set To Kill a Mockingbird — a bullet-riddled black man was found hanging from a tree in nearby Vredenburgh.

It's estimated that over 200 people have died on the mountain since the first recorded deaths in 1922. Bodies are now even being exposed at base camps, as the glaciers rapidly melt. Wikimedia CommonsMount Everest Scaling the highest mountain has always been a conquest human beings have eagerly endeavored. Mount Everest has served as the most notable of these peaks, with countless climbers successfully reaching the top since 1953 — and 200 known mountaineers dying in the process since 1922.

You'd have to be crazy to let six angry bulls chase you, but that's exactly what happens at the San Fermin festival.Source: Metro You’d have to be crazy to run 825 meters—more than eight football fields—with a herd of bulls racing beside you. Yet every year, millions of people from around the world gather at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain to watch the encierro, or the running of the bulls.