Large scavengers like vultures and hyenas do an important job in protecting human health. But studies show these creatures ...

The Federal Ministry of Environment, in collaboration with the Nigerian Conservation Foundation, has launched the National Vulture Conservation Action Plan to address the alarming decline of vulture ...

A mass poisoning event in South Africa's Lowveld has raised urgent alarms about the future of vultures. Without immediate action, we risk localised extinctions that threaten biodiversity and ...

Scavengers often get a bad rap — hyena giggles are nefarious, crows gather in “murders” and the naked necks of vultures speak for themselves. But the bodies of the dead don’t just disappear.

Colossal's years-long de-extinction campaign is built on a semantic house of cards and the "illusory truth effect" — where if you repeat something enough times, people will believe it.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Vultures have an image problem. Seen as ugly and associated with death, they are among the least loved animals in the world. Conservationists in Africa are trying to ...

Vultures have an image problem. Seen as ugly and associated with death, they are among the least loved animals in the world. Conservationists in Africa are trying to change that. CAPE TOWN, South ...

The "Big Five" mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic Eon have long attracted significant attention from the geoscience community and the public. Among them, the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction (LOME ...