Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It turns out the bearded vulture—also called the quebrantahuesos, or bonebreaker—isn’t just a carrion scavenger. It’s also a keen ...

Vultures are not known for their museum conservation skills, but perhaps that ought to change. Scientists have discovered an unlikely record of human history deep within layers of bone debris left by ...

MEQUON - As I climbed the stairs inside the 125-year-old silo, it was clear I wasn't alone. Occupants in the vertical structure heard my footfalls and sounded their alarms. The first I encountered was ...

An “extraordinary” stash of 600-year-old treasures has been discovered inside several vulture nests in Spain. Archaeologists examining the nests of the bearded vultures in the southern Spanish ...

Researchers surveying Ghana’s Mole National Park have found three critically endangered vulture species nesting there. In Ghana and elsewhere across Africa, vultures are threatened by poisoning, ...

It started like any other wildlife study. A team of researchers was out on the cliffs of southern Spain, looking into the nesting behaviour of vultures. But what they ended up finding wasn’t just ...

Scientists in Spain analyzed the abandoned “ancient nests” of bone-eating vultures and found centuries-old artifacts, photos show. Photo from Sergio Couto via Margalida, Couto, Pinedo, Gil-Sánchez, ...

A pair of wild black vultures hatched this spring at the Center for Birds of Prey on the South Carolina coast, and you can follow along as they grow up with a new live stream from their nest. “The ...

With Rochester’s infamous crows relatively quiet for the past couple months of their nesting season, is a new invader moving in? This past week while driving by Apache Mall at dusk I noticed a group ...

It turns out the bearded vulture—also called the quebrantahuesos, or bonebreaker—isn’t just a carrion scavenger. It’s also a keen collector of human ephemera. This habit has given researchers in ...