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 ...

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 ...

"We were so close to completely losing this huge part of ourselves." California condors are the largest land birds in North America, with a wingspan of 9.5ft (2.9m) – that's almost the same ...

US wildlife researchers have discovered that two California condors, a critically endangered bird, gave birth without any male genetic DNA. The discovery that condors are capable of virgin births ...

The Yurok Tribe considers the condor a sacred animal, integral to their creation story. But the birds had been absent from Northern California, where the tribe lives, for so long that "they weren ...

On Nov. 6, six captive-raised juvenile California condors will be released into the wild from the remote, rugged mountains above San Simeon. The new cohort (each about a year and a half old ...

These condors are mostly black, but males have a distinctive white “collar” around their necks and some white markings on their wings as well. Like their relatives, the California condors ...

Dave Wessner is a virologist who covers infectious diseases. In their continuing efforts to protect California condors from avian influenza, conservation biologists have moved one step closer.