Because their species hovers precariously on the edge of extinction, California Condors are watched carefully by wildlife researchers to make sure everything is OK. So it came as a pretty big surprise this week when those same researchers discovered that there was a 9-month-old condor chick out there. Apparently, a pair of condors in a remote locations had managed to raise the chick without anyone knowing it. This news is particularly welcome as it comes on the heals of news that the first condor chick to be born in Utah in decades has not survived.