A new study has exposed the the illegal trade of Hooded Vultures in Benin, revealing a major conservation crisis linked to ...

Half a century after its extinction, Bulgaria celebrated the reintroduction of one of Europe’s rarest birds of prey — the Bearded Vulture. This is seen as a stepping stone to reconnecting them ...

Thanks to significant reintroduction efforts, Europe is one of the few places in the world where vulture populations are ...

President Droupadi Murmu on Monday called for developing indigenous and low-cost treatments that are also chemical-free and ...

A video capturing a committee of endangered vultures has been widely shared on social media, with claims that the birds seen ...

After being thought lost to time, a rare and mysterious creature has made an unexpected return in the heart of Saudi Arabia’s ...

Bearded vultures are scavengers, and up to 85% of their diet is bone. Historically, they were called “ossifrage,” derived from the Latin for “bone breaker.” They mostly swallow bones whole, their ...

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 ...

Murmu noted that several species of animals have either become extinct or are on the verge of extinction and emphasised that their conservation is crucial ... Citing an example, Murmu said during her ...

Plymouth Argyle’s former overseas owners were labelled “vultures” in Parliament as the financial crisis that almost drove the club to extinction 14 years ago was highlighted to MPs - just as the ...

This reflects a human preference to protect and care for animals that are beautiful, attractive, powerful or utilitarian.

In the Americas, dates for extinction match the arrival of people 15,000 years ago, while the moas and Hast’s eagle survived in New Zealand up to human colonisation in the 1400s.