Vultures need the bulk to help weather carrion scarcity, but their heaviness makes active flying, with wings flapping, especially costly. Vultures have addressed the contradictory demands by ...

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF), India, on Friday announced a month-long vulture count across the country from next week to track the bird’s population. The count will begin on September 7, which ...

By one estimate, vultures either residing in or commuting into the Serengeti ecosystem during the annual migration—when 1.3 million white-bearded wildebeests shuffle between Kenya and Tanzania ...

The vultures flapped wings that were wider than the men were tall. Some collided with the sides of the aviary; others tried to grab the fence with their blunt black talons.

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

India’s first vulture sanctuary According to wildlife biologist Darshan C.S., India has nine species of vultures. Of these, four - including long-billed, white-rumped, red-headed and Egyptian ...

Close to 10 years after he founded Arulagam, he would pick up one cause and make it his life’s mission. A survey he undertook in 2011 along with the BNHS revealed a sharp decline in the vulture ...

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.

Black vulture populations are expanding and causing problems for livestock producers across several states. “It kinda gets you in the gut,” said Oklahoma livestock producer Yancy Paul.

With most vulture species going extinct in the country, a rare white vulture was captured by locals in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur on Sunday. According to a report by news agency ANI, a rare Himalayan ...