This year’s Patagonia Photo Contest winners included two fantastic shots of condors, a bird of prey considered a national ...

Soar the Andean canyons with these enormous vultures, one of Earth’s largest birds. Learn about this at-risk species that can ...

SANTIAGO, July 23 (Reuters) - An Andean condor being treated in Chile with lead in its blood, a pellet embedded in its skull and a satellite tracker from Argentina highlights the challenges of ...

The Andean condor has been threatened with extinction for decades. At one time, the condor was considered extinct in Venezuela, with populations in other South American countries not far behind.

In a recent study, Dr. Weronika Tomczyk and her colleagues conducted a zooarchaeological and isotopic study of ancient Andean condor bones from an archaeological site Castillo de Huarmey, providing ...

Peru’s famed ruins may be drowning in their own popularity, but out here on the volcanic edge of the Andes, the ancient world still knows how to keep a secret.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Researchers have found high levels of plastics in the diets and regurgitated pellets of Andean condors (Vultur gryphus) in Peru. The scientists ...

For over 2,000 years, Andean condors have been nesting — and pooping — in the same cliffside grotto high in the Andes. This gargantuan pile of guano is now providing an unprecedented peek deep into ...