Darwin

Death is an unfortunate inevitability for us all, but one must admit that some ways are worse to go than others, and some are just plain embarrassing. Today, we salute a few unlucky souls who had the misfortune of shedding their mortal coil in ways so unusual that the...

Gerhard Wilder, 46, became a laughing stock when he fell into an open drain and became trapped by his ample beer belly....

A math teacher was found dead at a waste recycling site in Newhaven in the UK. It is believed that he crawled into a dumpster to sleep after a heavy night of drinking with friends....

What started as a romantic idea, tossing a wedding bouquet from a small airplane, nearly ended in tragedy when it caused an ultralight aircraft to crash in the Italian countryside. ...

A young man found himself in a hospital emergency room after performing a DIY circumcision using a pair of nail clippers....

In the following video, a group of stormchasers in Goshen county, Wyoming managed to intercept a small tornado and film it from the inside. Things get interesting at around 2:15, but it is worth watching more to see a little of the method behind the madness. This author was...

Skydiver James Boole had a lucky escape when he forgot too open his parachute. The chute opened much too late and the British wingsuit jumper found himself slamming into the side of a mountain after a 6,000-foot plunge....

Valery Rozov’s jump from a helicopter into a bubbling, simmering and somewhat active volcano in Kamchatka might very well have earned him a posthumous Darwin award for his troubles. Instead the 44-year-old got the ride of his life as he glided gracefully, with the aid of a wingsuit, below...