Though the golden snub-nosed monkey has become beloved for its adorable blue face and elegant fur, these threatened primates are disappearing due to poachers and deforestation.Flickr/su nekoOnly 15,000 golden snub-nosed monkeys remain. The golden snub-nosed monkey is the type of animal almost too cute to be real. But they do exist — and are increasingly endangered. Golden snub-nosed monkey populations plummeted by more than half in the last 40 years. Native to the mountainous forests of southwestern China, they are embattled by deforestation and hunters profiting from their pelts and were classified as “Endangered” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature in 2015.

Source: Flickr The land surrounding the farm colony seems to have developed a horrific history early on. (The serial-killing Cropsey included.) The macabre story started back in the 1920’s, when a young boy went missing the same day he was seen with an elderly man in the woods around Sea View. Then famously, throughout the 1970’s and 80’s several children from Staten Island went missing; all of them presumed dead, though only one body was ever found – that of Jennifer Schweiger, a 12-year-old girl with Downs Syndrome, buried in a shallow grave in the woods surrounding the colony.

The Underground Railroad was neither underground nor a railroad — but it did fight the system of slavery by secretly shepherding slaves to freedom in the North. Wikimedia CommonsWilber Siebert’s map of the Underground Railroad. When the U.S. enacted the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, runaway slaves had to travel all the way to Canada in order to truly be free. On a night in 1831 something stirred along the shores of the Ohio River.

When people traveled to Eastern Europe in the 19th century, they went prepared.The vampire hunting kits allegedly sold to 19th century travelers in eastern Europe contain much of what you would expect: a wooden stake, Bible, crucifix, pistol with lead bullets, gunpowder, garlic, and glass vials that held various concoctions to ward off vampires. But what you might not have expected is that these kits supposedly predate Bram Stoker’s Dracula and other written accounts of vampires, pointing to the timeless origins of the myths behind these undead bloodsuckers.

This is the first time a multicellular organism has been brought back to life after a such an extensive dormant period.The Siberian TimesThe two nematode worms after they’d been thawed. Can you imagine being awoken from a 42,000-year nap? Well, that’s exactly how one recently reanimated worm in Russia is feeling right now. A new report, published this week in Doklady Biological Sciences, revealed that two prehistoric roundworms — one 42,000 years old and another 32,000 years old — were miraculously brought back to life in Petri dishes.