Fairies, folklore and forteana

CARMINE ‘THE SNAKE’ PERSICO WAS A GANGSTER’S GANGSTER: A STONE-COLD KILLER WHO MAINTAINED HIS POSITION AS BOSS OF NYC’S COLOMBO CRIME FAMILY DESPITE BEING SENTENCED TO 139 YEARS IN PRISON IN THE 1980S

A pride of lions silently patrolling the grassland at dusk; a cheetah closing in on its prey with mind-blowing speed; a watchful leopard curled artfully in a tree. There’s nothing quite like a big cat

No cheat codes required Tanya Combrinck finds out exactly what it takes to make the leap from burgeoning student to game-shaping art director

For nine days the heroic 1st Airborne fought desperately, waiting vainly for relief that never came

Were the seeds of Civil War already written into the American Constitution?

From dark matter to deep-sea crabs, science still can’t fully explain these strange quirks of nature