When people talk about wildlife, we often hear about tigers, elephants, or peacocks. But some animals don’t get much attention, even though they do an important job. Vultures are one of them. Quiet ...

What image comes to mind when you hear the word vulture? When I close my eyes, I picture omens of death, circling ominously overhead as if in an old Western movie. Or my stomach is turned by imagining ...

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, ...

Vultures are hard birds for humans to love. They are an obligate scavenger, meaning they get all their food from already dead prey—and that association has cast them as a harbinger of death since ...