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

Tens of thousands of turkey vultures glide over the Detroit River, offering citizen scientists a surprising highlight of hawk ...

Laurie Rott took these photos of a group of adult turkey vultures she spotted in a neighbor’s oak tree in Golden Hills, when ...

Numerous birds, including turkey vultures, hawks, and eagles, were on display with handlers for the public to learn about.

Nature’s least loved animals are dying fast. This could make the environment stinky and pathogens unstoppable.

More than one-third of species that eat some amount of carrion are threatened or declining, a new analysis finds, and that ...

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

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.

An Advance/SILive.com reporter spotted turkey vultures gobbling up a dead opossum on Hylan Boulevard in early May.

Turkey vultures have a major PR problem. Many people view them as black-feathered villains with menacing bone-colored beaks that skulk on tree branches and circle the skies waiting for animals and ...

Turkey vultures have many gross habits. They defend themselves by vomiting powerful stomach acids, and they pee and defecate on their feet to cool themselves down. (It’s called urohidrosis.) ...

Birds Turkey vultures in California are testing positive for rat poison Despite statewide restrictions on the deadly poisons, new research shows they’re still infiltrating the food web.