The world needs these scavengers. Wildlife experts stunned as trail camera captures first-time visit of apex scavenger: ...

Learn how falling numbers of vultures, hyenas, and other large-bodied scavengers could cause an uptick in zoonotic diseases.

A turkey vulture’s stomach acid is so powerfully corrosive it can safely digest carcasses infected with deadly diseases like rabies.

A mass poisoning incident early in May in the Mahlangeni section of the park left more than 120 vultures dead and reignited concerns over escalating threats to biodiversity, public health and the ...

A decline in scavengers like vultures, hyenas, and condors is disrupting ecosystems and increasing the risk of disease ...

Large scavengers like vultures and hyenas help limit pathogens that can harm humans by eating carrion, the meat from decaying ...

Ralph the turkey vulture served as an animal ambassador at the EcoTarium. The turkey vulture is one of two knowns species of ...

A vulture, apparently comfortable being around people, crosses Main Street in Alton this week to get to the other side of the road where it spied a dead animal. Why did the vulture cross the road.

Commonly known as the white scavenger vulture or Pharaoh's chicken, the Egyptian vulture is a small Old World vulture in the monotypic genus Neophron. Staff Reporter Updated: Monday, February 17 ...