Carcasses have been poisoned specifically to eliminate vultures, whose overhead circling might otherwise reveal the poachers' illicit activities. A team of researchers have warned that African ...

A friend of mine very much dislikes vultures. My efforts have failed to change his mind despite detailing their unique and valuable role in nature. Citing intriguing facts about these remarkable birds ...

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Since the late 1980s, 98 percent of West Africa’s vultures outside protected nature areas have disappeared, while half the population of the Gyps vulture species in Kenya’s Masai Mara park have gone, ...

Growing up in India, environmental economist Anant Sudarshan remembers the vultures. "When I used to go to school, the school bus would cross the river. And you always saw these vultures in vast ...

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A new Tel Aviv University study, the first of its kind, has revealed that vultures, much like humans, experience changes in movement habits and social relationships as they age. Young vultures ...

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Africa's vultures are vanishing, according to a report released on Thursday, a situation that could affect human health and livestock since populations of other scavengers such ...

Well-preserved fossils of ancient large reptiles called pterosaurs have revealed that some species flew by flapping their wings, while others soared like vultures, according to a new study. Pterosaurs ...