Vultures don’t exactly have the best reputation, and people see them as creepy, ominous, and just plain gross. These myths ...

Biologist Bracken Brown couldn’t believe his eyes when he spotted the seemingly out-of-place bird soaring through the sky. “I ...

The birds are widely reviled for their carrion-eating ways. But an evolutionary history of scavenging has forged a creative, cunning and wide-ranging mind. Lappet-faced vultures, Shredder and Kenya, ...

Black vultures have killed and eaten several calves on Tom Karr’s cattle ranch in southeastern Ohio, a loss he says didn't ...

Craig Rathkamp took this photo in his back yard in the Valley of a migrating Turkey Vulture that had rested in an Arizona ...

You've heard of a strong stomach? Whatever the context, turkey vultures would always come first. The acid in a vulture's digestive system is strong enough to destroy the DNA of the dead animal it's ...

Turkey Vultures are one of the most widely distributed carrion feeders throughout the Americas. We analyzed their regurgitated pellets from two localities in the Atacama Desert of Chile. Natural foods ...

With so many threats to animal populations and habitats around the world, it sometimes feels like all we hear is bad news. It is easy to forget that dedicated conservationists and scientists are ...

Pity the poor vulture. As a carrion eater, he has suffered from an image problem throughout his existence. His countenance is not particularly attractive, and he is naturally associated with ...

Sites in the Mojave Desert in the western U.S. surveyed by ecologists a century ago have lost an average of 43 percent of their breeding bird species. New research suggests higher temperatures have ...