Ten thousand years ago, as the Pleistocene ended and the Holocene began, sea levels rose and trapped a small group of woolly mammoths — possibly as few as eight — on Wrangel Island off the Siberian coast. What happened next is what science calls a “bottleneck event.” It’s when a species faces a combination of […]
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Missing California hiker says he survived on creek water before being found 9 days later
A California man was planning on hiking for three hours. Instead, he spent nine days lost in California’s Santa Cruz mountains. After witnesses heard calls for help in a wooded era, officials found a disheveled Lukas McClish. He was shirtless, with only a flashlight and a pair of scissors, NBC affiliate KSBW of Salinas reported. […]
Hiker missing for 10 days in California mountains survived by drinking a gallon of water each day
A California man spent ten days stranded in the mountains after he got lost on a hike, relying in part on large volumes of water to survive. Lukas McClish, 34, set out for what he thought would be a three-hour hike in the Santa Cruz Mountains on June 11, according to CNN affiliate WABC. But […]
Alex Jones’ Infowars survived a judge’s order, but the conspiracy outlet could still be shut down
Alex Jones’ notorious conspiracy platform Infowars may have survived a key decision from a federal judge last week, but the platform’s future is far from secure. A bankruptcy judge in Houston on Friday allowed Jones to liquidate his personal assets to help pay the nearly $1.5 billion that he owes the families of the Sandy […]
Soviet-era cosmonaut Vyacheslav Zudov, who survived only Soyuz splashdown, dies
Soviet-era cosmonaut Vyacheslav Zudov, whose failed docking with a Russian space station ended with the first and only emergency splashdown in a Soyuz spacecraft, has died at the age of 82. Zudov’s death on Wednesday (June 12) was reported by Roscosmos, Russia’s federal space corporation. “[His] two-day spaceflight became, without exaggeration, dramatic,” read a statement […]
She survived being shot at point-blank range. Who wanted Nicki Lenway dead?
This story previously aired on Oct. 7, 2023. Nicole “Nicki” Lenway, a crime scene investigator for the Minneapolis Police Department, was gunned down in broad daylight — shot twice at point-blank range in a parking lot on the evening of April 20, 2022. “Someone wanted me dead,” Lenway tells “48 Hours” correspondent Erin Moriarty in […]
Florida farmworkers survived a deadly bus crash. Then, they feared deportation.
GAINESVILLE — After a violent crash killed eight of their colleagues and injured dozens more, the path to recovery for the migrant farmworkers looked long. Rigoberto Gregorio shattered his femur, leaving the 30-year-old in a wheelchair and unable to bathe himself. Ramón Pérez Ponce endured ongoing and radiating pain, prompting the 39-year-old to dial 911 […]
Randy Wayne White survived Hurricane Ian. Now it’s Doc Ford’s turn in new book
The wind howled and the floodwaters crashed ashore like a raging river as Hurricane Ian ripped through Sanibel Island. And the whole time, Randy Wayne White kept shooting video on his phone and taking notes. The bestselling novelist didn’t want to miss a thing. “I told myself, if I’m going to ride this out, I’m […]
How NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX asteroid probe survived its 1st close encounter with the sun
An animation of a cube-shaped spacecraft with two rectangular wing-like solar panels passing in front of the sun. OSIRIS-APEX emerged “unscathed” from its closest-ever brush past our sun on Jan. 2, scientists announced on Tuesday (May 28). The probe, originally known as OSIRIS-REx, aced its sample-return mission to the asteroid Bennu and is now headed […]
Dade Phelan survived GOP primary runoff but some fellow Republicans still gunning for him
Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan emerged from Tuesday’s bloody GOP primary runoff with a wafer-thin victory, but the dominant forces in the Republican Party who have been gunning for him for more than a year showed no signs of backing away from their all-out effort to put the Legislature’s lower chamber under new management in […]
The GOP establishment survived in Texas, but the results were messy
Tuesday’s primary runoffs in Texas were a victory for the GOP’s establishment — but it was far from a decisive show of force in its ongoing battle with the party’s insurgent hard-right wing. Moderate Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales fended off a far-right pro-gun YouTube star in his sprawling West Texas district. But it took a […]
Mass. man who survived grizzly bear attack reveals what saved his life
A Massachusetts man who was left hospitalized with serious injuries after he was mauled by a grizzly bear while hiking in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming is speaking out about the violent encounter. The 35-year-old Army veteran from South Hadley, identified by the Jackson Hole News & Guide as Shayne Patrick Burke, says he’s […]