Labels:andean condor | animal | bird | california condor | condor | dirt | earth | person | rock | sky OCR: ORIGINS Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus) Gary Vestal Condors existed in the New World at least 12 million years ago While today's condors are impressively large birds, fossils dating as recently as the Pleistocene (1 million to 15 thousand years ago exist of much larger vulturine known as teratorns. wing (or carpal) bone of large teratorn named Teratornis incredibilis wae discovered in Nevada. It has been estimated bv comparison to the carpal bones of complete teratorn specimens that incredibilis had wingspan of 17 feet Today's Andean Condor has wingspan of 10 feet 3 meters) Itis possible that this recently extinct teratorn played part in the thunderbird mythology of indiaenous North Americans contents options 4inb bookmark last menu todays bonee recenthy
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