Lightning struck two visitors to the Horseshoe Bend overlook in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, a National Park Service-managed site.

A man found a fully intact mammoth tusk in a creek bed in Mississippi. Experts call this an “extremely rare find.”

Scientists found a Shen’s odd-scaled snake in China with ‘blood-red’ eyes. Found out how rare this snake is and learn more about it here.

A rare phenomenon called a fire tornado added to the terror the Chico, California community is already experiencing thanks to the Park Fire.

Don’t mess with Death Valley. One man somehow lost his shoes in the hottest place on Earth, and it didn’t work out.

No one’s ever seen a boat strike a basking shark from the shark’s point of view, until now. Watch footage from a camera mounted on the shark.

Death Valley is the hottest place on Earth. But a recent thermometer reading suggested an unearthly temperature spike. It read 667°F.

A 13-year-old boy was hiking with his father on Mount Carmel in Israel when he discovered an artifact that’s likely 1,800 years old.

A coffee farmer didn’t realize he was filming an extremely rare animal, the Amazon weasel, for the first time ever. Watch the footage here.

When an extremely rare whale washed ashore in New Zealand, the scientific community became very excited. Here’s what it is.