One of the Guanajuato Mummies on display at a tourism fair in Mexico City reportedly showed signs of "fungal growths" — and the glass case it was in may not have been enough to stop the spores from spreading.Wikimedia CommonsOne of the mummies on display at the Museo de las Momias in Guanajuato, Mexico. Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History has warned that a traveling display of 19th-century mummies may have the potential to spread a dangerous fungal infection to visitors who view them.

On June 26, 2017, Monalisa Perez shot and accidentally killed Pedro Ruiz III in a YouTube stunt gone wrong.YouTubeMonalisa Perez and Pedro Ruiz III with their 3-year-old daughter. Monalisa Perez and Pedro Ruiz III’s YouTube channel is full of videos of the couple talking in their kitchen, hanging out with their daughter, playing pranks, and performing low-key stunts. But on Monday, one of their jokes went too far when Perez, 19, accidentally shot and killed Ruiz, 22.

Abul Bajandar finally had surgery to remove his infamous bark-like lesions. He’s now in recovery (right) and awaiting future operations. Image Sources: YouTube (left), CNN (right). Abul Bajandar, the 25-year-old Bangladeshi man known around the world as “Tree Man,” has successfully undergone his first surgery to trim back some of the bark-like warts on his hands and feet. Bajandar went under the knife on February 20 at the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital for three hours.

Airport Reef, 2014. Photo: XL Catlin Seaview Survey In 2014, Aiport Reef in American Samoa was a rich, rusty red, signifying its good health. But in October of 2015, NOAA announced that a global coral reef bleaching event had taken place, devastating Airport Reef (see below). Bleaching happens when coral becomes stressed, causing algae — coral’s main source of food — to leave its host. Coral then turns ghostly white.

After needlessly spending three decades behind bars, Lawrence McKinney’s attempts to get exonerated have been mired by red tape. A Tennessee man falsely imprisoned for more three decades is fighting to win greater compensation after state officials gave him just $75 and then sent him on his way in 2009. Lawrence McKinney, now 60, spent 31 years in prison after a Tennessee court wrongly convicted him of raping a woman and stealing a television set in 1978.