VERMILLION CLIFFS, Ariz. California condors soared aboveArizona's reddish canyon walls Thursday, taking to the sky for thefirst time in decades with scientists' hopes flying with them.
For thousands of years, condors flew over these cliffs and fedon carcasses of woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers - before manpushed the huge birds to the brink of extinction.
Thursday morning, 72 years since a wild California condor waslast seen in Arizona, six fledglings spread their 9-foot wings andtook flight.As the pen door swung open, government officials, biologists,bird watchers and wildlife enthusiasts watched like eager parents.The boldest one flapped its wings …
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