A cherished icon of the West, the prehistoric-looking California condor remains one of the world's most endangered ... we launched an in-depth investigation and announced a $40,000 reward to help ...

This Earth Day, we’re celebrating stories from the past year of UC research that illustrate the resilience of life on our ...

Three years ago, the California condor returned to the skies over Humboldt County for the first time in over a century. The ...

A colossus of the sky, the California condor was nearly gone when biologists ... to touch two live electric cables at once—with the help of aversion training. The young condors got mild shocks ...

Condors are scavengers and play a crucial role in the ecosystem by feeding on dead animals, preventing rotting carcasses from ...

In May 1835 in Willamette Falls, Oregon, an eager young Philadelphia naturalist named John Kirk Townsend collected a female California condor. It’s one of the oldest specimens among the ...

California Condors ... breeding,” when three individuals help to raise a chick in a single nest. Between 2001 and 2023, of the 52 nesting condor pairs identified in the Central California ...

It’s another promising year to save critically endangered species, the Oregon said, after the first two California condor chicks of 2025 hatched last week. We're told the chicks are healthy and ...

Because they are so heavy (up to 33 pounds), even their enormous 10-foot wingspan needs some help ... The Andean condor is considered threatened but is in far better shape than its California ...

Clippers unveil Chuck the Condor mascot; owner Steve Ballmer dunks Chuck the California Condor debuted as the Clippers' mascot Monday night, introduced by team owner Steve Ballmer.