In this forest thick with trees up to 600 years old lives the southernmost population of the California condor (Gymnogyps californianus), the only one outside the United States. Dozens of the ...

A cherished icon of the West, the prehistoric-looking California condor remains one of the world's most endangered species. North America's largest avian narrowly escaped extinction in the mid-1980s ...

Hauck warned that the California condor is an indicator species. “They’re called obligate scavengers, because that’s all they do, is eat things that are dead. And so they play this vital ...

Gymno comes from the Greek word gymnast, meaning "naked," and refers to the condor's featherless head ... condors can store energy as fat and go days without eating. Lacking a good sense of smell, the ...