On April 19, 1987, the California condor went extinct in the wild. There was only one way to save the species.

A scan of a California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) egg has revealed a rarely seen embryonic world. The chick is the 250th condor hatched at a facility helping to bring back the threatened ...

Oil drilling in Los Padres National Forest has been canceled, a sign that drilling and fracking in SoCal is fading.

Overwatching all these humans—itinerant or resident—would have been the birds now known as California condors (Gymnogyps californianus), which lived on the cliff edges high above. Generation ...

Gymno comes from the Greek word gymnast, meaning "naked," and refers to the condor's featherless head; gyps is Greek for "vulture." DESCRIPTION: The largest flying land birds in North America, ...

On April 19, 1987, the California condor went extinct in the wild. There was only one way to save the species.

(photo courtesy of The Peregrine Fund) The sanctuary is the best habitat for California condors, Gymnogyps californianus, in the state, Kuyper said. At the sanctuary, the condors nest and produce ...

It was the only way to save the species. Bald eagles thriving in Pennsylvania California condors (Gymnogyps californianus) are enormous — North America’s largest land birds. They weigh up to ...