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The history of mankind is cloudy, and the best evidence is thousands of years old. Many generations of brilliant minds have worked to solve the mystery of man's origins.

The species of modern reptiles are but mere shadows representing the shattered remains of what was once the grandest collection of animals on the planet.

A preview of the men's basketball teams at Arizona and Arizona State. Olson's retirement stuns Wildcats; Sun Devils return five starters.

The rock formations that make up Grand Canyon National park were deposited more than two billion years ago.

The Taliban leader directly responsible for September 11th attacks is free. The media must grill presidential candidates about this outrage. America deserves closure.

The history of the spotted horse in North America goes back more than 500 years to the arrival of the horses brought by Spanish explorers.

Anne Frank in 2009, on her 80th birthday anniversary and 65 years since the hiding place on the third floor was discovered by the German Security Police, is remembered.

This article contains a brief history of war in the Balkans during the 1990s, and key events that brought the Serbs and ethnic-Albanians to war in Kosovo during 1998.

It was the year 1909. A stamp cost two cents, radio and vaudeville were in, Benny Goodman and Burl Ives were born and Pittsburgh won the World Series.

All of Europe was enmeshed in the Napoleonic Wars in 1809, but in North America Canadians and Americans were casting their eyes westward.

Former Stanford coach Mike Montgomery is the new man in charge at Cal while Johnny Dawkins, an All-American during his playing days at Duke, takes over at Stanford.

Both in their ontogeny (biological development of an individual) and phylogeny (evolutionary history of a group) amphibians reveal their watery origins.

To understand how geologists determine a rock's age and origin, first understand the geologic time scale. The Precambrian is the largest chunk of this scale.

A combination of geologic processes taking place over billions of years formed the Harney Peak Granite, where the faces of four American presidents are carved.

Millions of years of evolutionary adaptation forged by mountain building and volcanism led to modern day salmon species, who in their turn survived an onslaught of ice.

Some rocks in the core of the Appalachian Mountains are more than 1 billion years old and construction of the mountains relates to the Supercontinent Pangea.

Mammoths, extinct relatives of elephants, fascinate mankind from beyond the grave. They originated in Africa like humans and spread over the Northern Hemisphere.

New data show that glaciers are retreating in response to climate change.

A 30-mile long ravine in northern Tanzania, the Olduvai Gorge (or the Oldupai Gorge) is the key to the study of the hominids of prehistory.

How long have Aboriginal people lived in Australia And America? Well, that depends on your cultural and political point of view.

Sykes says his book is about "the history of the world as revealed by genetics." He names the genetic clan groups and describes their world.

In the 3.5-billion-year history of life, there have been many relatively sudden reductions in species, five of which are considered major.

Quarterbacks have won the Heisman Trophy six of the past seven seasons and there's only one reason - Darren McFadden - to think 2007 won't make it seven of eight.

Japan is known for beautiful strato-volcanoes and large caldera volcanoes. These are recent additions to a geological base of ocean-derived rocks and sediments.

Defending NCAA Tournament national champion, Florida, has all five starters back. This is more than enough to give the Gators the top spot in our pre-season Top 20 Poll.

College basketball fans from the state of Oregon are in for a rough season. Oregon could struggle while Oregon State seems destined for last place again.

To truly begin to understand paleontology, it is first important to have a good grasp on the basic geological timeline in which all life has existed.

The great Himalaya Mountain Range formed as a result of tectonic forces driving two continental plates towards each other.

Paleontologists have identified several mass extinctions through geologic time. Understanding these major events may provide insight into today's biodiversity crisis.

Early life became complex and eventually fish evolved, later giving way to the marine reptiles, then to the marine mammals as the 'highest' life-forms.

How are whales related to one-another, and how intelligent is the group as a whole?

The mammoth is one of the iconic mega beasts that walked the earth. Although several species of mammoth evolved their extinction along with other mega beasts is a mystery

30 million-year old fossils of monotremes, previously believed to be a Cretaceous platypus, have been shown to be closely related to present day ground-dwelling echidnas

Prompted to form by a bolide that hit the Earth 35 million years ago, the Bay is home to more than 16 million people.

USC and UCLA are worlds apart on the football field these days. On the basketball court, they are much closer, and may be the best teams in the Pac-10 conference.

In the face of geological turmoil and climate change, ancient ancestors of today's Pacific Salmon took advantage of cooler, more productive oceans.

How could a sixteenth century Turkish admiral have drawn an accurate map of Antarctica?

Human cultures have evolved much more quickly than seems biologically possible.

Designated as a National Park in 1941 to protect the fragile eco-system, Mammoth Cave National Park is now host to 2 million visitors a year.

The accepted theory is that collision with an asteroid caused the demise of the dinosaurs; this supposition is now being updated.

During the last glacial period, the environments of the northern and southern hemispheres were much different than they are today.

Plants evolved billions of years ago into the plants known today; a complex composition of chemicals helps protect and sustain a plant throughout its life cycle.

By looking at the golden gene, scientists have found that Northern Europeans turned lighter-skinned some 30,000 years after they arrived in Europe.

Many anatomical differences exist between modern humans and modern apes. When and why did these changes come about?

Get off the highway and take the Turquoise Trail National Scenic Byway to see unspoilt New Mexico. It is one of southwest America's most scenic drives

A brief look at Antonin Dvorak's first summer in America, when he vacationed at the Czech colony in Spillville, Iowa.

It was in the Silicon Valley 100 years ago which the inventor, Charles "Doc" Herrold, started his regularly scheduled live radio broadcasts to listeners.

Recent work on DNA extracted from a 38,000-year-old Neanderthal fossil raises more questions about whether Neanderthal man interbred with Homo-Sapiens than answers.

The advance and retreat of shallow seas led to the unique features found in Wind Cave. Outcrops in the park point to the region's geologic history.

Historical Women's Fashion Apparel is on exhibit at the Vancouver Museum and shows how vintage clothing affected body image years ago.