The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) is a species of mammoth that lived during the Pleistocene until its extinction in the Holocene epoch. It was one of the last in a line of mammoth species, beginning with Mammuthus subplanifrons in the early Pliocene.…

Why do we eat cornflakes? Why are pancakes a breakfast food? What did we drink at breakfast before we had coffee? Discover the truth about your morning meal.

Susan Walters, the ex-wife of Michael Kuhnhausen Sr., is busy preparing to do everything she can to protect herself once he is released from prison later this year.

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World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. An estimated total of 70–85 million people perished, or about 3% of the 1940 world population (est. 2.3 billion). Deaths directly caused by the war (including military and civilians fatalities)…

It's remarkable what evolution can do in millions of years.

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Britain's electricity network operator National Grid is surveying football fans and analysing data to make sure it can respond to an expected surge in demand when UK viewers of the World Cup brew their traditional cup of half-time tea.

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Cinco De Mayo was originally intended to connect Mexican Americans to U.S. history, but it's evolved into a major drinking event. Here's how that happened.

Download scientific diagram | College students' Narcissistic Personality Inventory scores by time period. Capped vertical bars denote ±1 SE. from publication: Egos Inflating Over Time: A Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory…

Reading Time: 3 minutes 37 seconds Manhattan is considered the cultural, financial, entertainment, and media capital of the world. The borough hosts the United Nations Headquarters as well as Wall Street. Many multinational media conglomerates reside in Manhattan…

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A new study has challenged the popular theory that the first Ice-Age humans who migrated to North America arrived by a land bridge connecting Siberia to Alaska.

MILANO, Texas (AP)--Coyotes and wild dogs were slaughtering calves on Herbie Vaughan's ranch in the Cedar Creek valley south of Milano until about eight years ago when he took an

Although it is called "wild rice," this product is actually the seed of a type of marsh grass that is native to the Great Lakes area, including northern Minnesota. Similar to brown rice, it takes about an hour to cook and has a nutty flavor.