SAN DIEGO — Scientists with the San Diego Zoo’s conservation wing proudly unveiled an “extraordinary discovery” this week: California condors can lay eggs and produce chicks without having sex. The ...

Last year was an exceptional milestone for the Central California condor flock, as nine wild chicks fledged from their parents’ nests, “the highest number of chicks (to fledge) in the program’s ...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A California condor chick is about to hatch at San Diego Zoo Safari Park, and a webcam is offering a birds-eye view. Zoo officials said Thursday that the egg has begun to pip — the ...

Optimism is soaring within the California Condor Recovery Program (CCRP) after the announcement on Wednesday that the Los Angeles Zoo successfully hatched 10 chicks this season. All 10 of the condors ...

Best wishes are in order for the 10 California condor chicks hatched this year at the Los Angeles Zoo. The zoo’s healthy hatchlings in the 2025 condor breeding season will be candidates for release ...

But now at nearly 17 months old, she is one of three of the giant endangered birds who got to stretch their wings in the wild as part of a release this weekend near the Grand Canyon. Even after the ...

FRESNO, Calif. — For the first time in more than a century, a California condor chick successfully hatched inside a federal park that once was a domain of the endangered species. Biologists at ...

The California condor once tip-toed dangerously close to extinction, with only 22 left in the wild in 1982. Now, the rebounding species is marking a millenary milestone. In a victory for conservation, ...

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Veterinarians at the Oakland Zoo are treating a California condor named Miracle for lead poisoning. Miracle is the first wild chick born in over a century in Big Sur as part of the ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A 3-month-old California condor chick that died last month was killed by West Nile virus, federal environmental officials said Tuesday. Scientists attempted to retrieve the chick ...

The L.A. Zoo has welcomed a new California condor chick into the world. Named #LA1720 for now, the hatchling broke out of its shell late on Thursday night and appears to be doing well. Little ...