Mortalities at poisoned carcasses significantly contribute to the population decline of many vulture species. As vultures employ social strategies and follow each other in their search for food, one ...

The turkey vultures are back. They return to Wyoming each spring, roosting by the hundreds on the UW campus and in Casper.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This sandal woven from grasses and twigs, called an agobía, is somewhere between 652 and 696 years old, researchers say.

Turkey vultures have a major PR problem. Many people view them as black-feathered villains with menacing bone-colored beaks that skulk on tree branches and circle the skies waiting for animals and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's not exactly a compliment to be called a vulture. They circle overhead when disaster or death is imminent. They scavenge and ...

It's a world of excitement at Zoo Atlanta as tiny faces light up at lions, elephants, and rhinos, but there's a feathered resident at the zoo that deserves a second look. Obsidian is the newest star ...

Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza is killing black vultures at alarming rates across the southeastern United States, with a new University of Georgia study finding that more than four out of ...

Twenty-five griffon vultures have arrived in Romania and were placed in an acclimatization aviary near the commune of Rucăr in Argeș county, marking the start of a long-term effort to reintroduce the ...

A recent vulture census at Nagarahole National Park identified 23 vultures from three species, highlighting the critical need for conservation. Despite a ban on the fatal drug diclofenac, threats like ...

Every third Friday of May is Endangered Species Day. More than 900 known species are already extinct to date, while at least 28,500 others are listed as endangered or critically endangered by the IUCN ...

No species is a ‘villain’ – and even humans’ least favourite creatures are part of a web that makes all life possible, says author Jo Wimpenny ...