In 2011, Pakistan's markhor population reached a worrisome low of 2,500. Officials responded by banning local poachers from hunting them while welcoming foreigner trophy hunters like Bryan Harlan.Wikimedia CommonsA group of protected grazing Markhors. 2001. A longtime Texas trophy hunter traveled across the world to explore Pakistan’s northern Himalayas — and to trophy hunt a rare mountain goat for $110,000. His actions, unsurprisingly, resulted in massive outrage. Bryan Kinsel Harlan posed for a triumphant photo with his kill on Tuesday.

The 60-year-old businessman is adamant he and his friend killed the two elephants in self-defense after they unexpectedly charged at the two men.TwitterMike Jines and Max “Buzz” Delezenne posing with their kill in 2018. When Mike Jines was photographed looming over two dead elephants with a rifle slung over his shoulder, social media smelled blood. The American businessman — an executive with TopGen Energy in Alpharetta, Georgia — quickly became a target himself.

Ueli Steck may have been Earth's best mountaineer, but one tragically bold attempt on Mount Everest brought his impressive life to an end.Jonathan Griffith / Barcroft Med / Getty ImagesUeli Steck scales Grandes Jorasses in the French Alps in 2011. An incredibly strong climber who set both speed and endurance records that his peers had previously thought impossible, Ueli Steck of Switzerland was considered one of the greatest mountaineers of all time.

Researchers studied walrus ivory from museums around Europe to help reach their conclusion.Musées Du MansThe upper jaw bone of a Walrus with tusks. The debate surrounding the Norse’s decision to settle on icy and treacherous Greenland, as well as their prosperous existence on such rough terrain has raged for decades. But, a new report may hold some long awaited answers. The Norse relied on farming, fishing, and trading to survive, but a new study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B confirmed a specific trade item that could have led to their prosperity and downfall: walrus ivory.

The 23-year-old musical genius and frontman for The Bobby Fuller Four was on the brink of superstardom when he was found inexplicably burned and bruised in the front seat of his mom's car.In the early afternoon of July 18, 1966, Lorraine Fuller returned to the parking lot of her apartment building in Los Angeles. Ever since that morning, both her car and her son Bobby Fuller had been missing. She kept checking the lot as she became more anxious by the minute.