Luke Skywalker survived the arctic conditions of the planet Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back only because Han Solo killed his tauntaun (a native beast of burden) and shoved Luke inside the animal's warm carcass. This led...

Jack Weir was clearing trees in his family farm with a Bobcat when a large cottonwood hit back and impaled him with a piece of wood 20 feet long and 6 inches thick. What happened next was nothing short of a miracle:A...

Is there an evolutionary reason for women to undergo menopause? One theory says that it happens so they can survive long enough to be grandmothers. This is not a reward; it is another method of helping one's genes to sur...

Cynthia Blair-Hoover of Granby, Colorado crashed on the way to Denver when her car went off a cliff near Central City. Although the fall left the 52-year-old woman with eleven broken ribs, broken vertebrae, and a punctur...

Xavier Rosset, a young Swiss adventurer, recently...  ...; Rosset's goal was to 'relearn' the natural survival skills which many urban males seem to have forgot...

Earthquake-prone Japan has a market for these suits that you strap onto your cats and dogs so that they can survive for days after a major earthquake. Each suit contains all of the necessary gear including water, bi...

The following is reprinted from Uncle Joh...  ...panese onboard of the ill-fated ocean liner whose survival actually became a curse: THE LONG TRIP HOME RMS...

Tonka the tortoise was found in San Mateo County in California after it had been attacked by a dog that had bitten off one of her legs. Rescuers were afraid she would never be able to move normally until one of them had...

While Bear Grylls may have all the charm and reckl...  ...picking up skills and dedicating all his time to survival , so he knows a thing or two. Here he demonstra...