How long have condors been on the planet?
Rich: They have soared in the skies during the Pleistocene era, which ended about ten thousand years ago. We can assume that they feasted on carrion of saber toothed tigers and mastodons. Their original range was a huge swath of land along the Pacific coastline, from British Colombia to Baja California. Estelle: There have been fossil finds of condors in what is now New England and Florida too. Rich: Lewis and Clark saw them and even shot one. But by the 1940s, the range was reduced to the coastal mountains of southern and central California.
