A vulture soars overhead as three others are perched on the hillside at Cambria's Fiscalini Ranch Preserve. Credit: Dan McCaslin / Noozhawk photo While backpacking decades ago in our Santa Barbara ...

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Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, Africa. The large animal had not been dead 24 hours but it was already unrecognizable except for its wildebeest horns. Lions and hyenas have already had their way ...

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but it's fair to assume that vulture looks are an acquired taste. The hook-beaked, scrawny-necked and chunky-bodied birds were immediately described as ...

Vultures, often thought of as the birds of death and decay, have a reputation for scavenging roadkill and signaling mortality from the sky. However, the black vulture is also known for attacking and ...

Imagine a world where the skies go silent, forests fall empty, and the wild whispers its last goodbye. It almost happened—vultures vanished from India’s horizons, lions teetered on oblivion, and rare ...