When your primary food source is festering meat, acid, poop, and bacteria become some of your best friends. I’m Anna Rothschild, and this is Gross Science. Vultures are meat-eating scavengers ...

Conservationists have released five vultures back into the wild on a mountain range in South Africa after they were rescued and rehabilitated ...

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

In the animal kingdom, you might think you know what animals eat, but you’d be surprised by some of the unexpected things ...

That’s because turkey vultures have a super acidic digestive system that enables them to ingest old meat tainted with anthrax, tuberculosis, botulism and rabies – and not get sick themselves.

2 eerie types of carrion-eating vultures hunch over barren limbs in Arkansas; neither is a buzzard October 31, 2022 at 2:35 a.m. | Updated October 31, 2022 at 10:50 a.m. by Jerry Butler ...

More than 100 vultures die after eating elephant poisoned by poachers This incident represents one of the worst mass vulture poisonings in the park's history ...

‘These vultures were in rough shape.’ Birds found intoxicated after eating fruit from cocktail drinks in Conn. By Ava Berger Globe Correspondent, Updated April 18, 2024, 10:33 a.m.

In addition to eating carrion, turkey vultures will also eat animal poop . They practice urohydrosis, which is a fancy way of saying that they poop on their legs to cool themselves down and to kill ...

News What to know about vultures in North Texas during spring nesting season Plus, how to keep vultures off roofs and away from garbage dumpsters.

Tanganyika Wildlife Park brought Hoppy to KSN News at Noon on Wednesday. King vultures have colorful but bald heads.

Dark flying creatures such as bats, ravens, crows and owls have long been a staple of Halloween decorations. Lately, another creepy, carrion-eating critter perched on gnarled, barren limbs has ...