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 ...

Picking through a dozen vulture nests, scientists discovered hundreds of artifacts, including a sandal that could be more ...

It's not exactly a compliment to be called a vulture. They circle overhead when disaster or death is imminent. They scavenge and scrounge, feeding on things killed by nature or man, feasting on the ...

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, ...

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Turkey vultures never seem to hurry. They glide silently above us, drawing circles in the air, calligraphers with quill pens. They tip and turn up there in the wind, rarely flapping those long willowy ...

Multiple Types of Vultures Live in the U.S. Three types of vultures live in the United States—the turkey vulture, black vulture and California condor (which is a vulture bird, despite not having that ...

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

Turkey vultures deter predators by projectile vomiting gastric juices as acidic as battery acid that burns their attacker's skin and eyes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Black vultures have killed and eaten several calves on Tom Karr’s cattle ranch in southeastern Ohio, a loss he says didn't happen two decades ago. Now it happens regularly. It’s a problem faced ...

When I ask children what birds eat, this is often their response. You might expect them to say worms, bugs or seeds, but think about it. Kids spend more time in cars than in their backyards. So big ...

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 ...