In the context of all known animal species, mammals are relatively rare — far less numerous than many other groups of animals ...

Local efforts drove away more than 2,700 vultures between September 2024 and August 2025 from Derry Township as part of a ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - The Dickerson Park Zoo showcased its turkey vulture on October’s The Wild Side. Zookeeper KyAnne Hilger shares the differences between a turkey vulture and a black vulture. To ...

Bats, spiders, toads, and black cats seem to get all the attention around Halloween, with owls often left out of the discussion. That ends now, and rightfully so. There are a lot of cool things about ...

Black vultures have killed and eaten several calves on Tom Karr’s cattle ranch in southeastern Ohio, a loss he says didn't happen two decades ago.

Many unexpected human artifacts have been preserved, for centuries, in vulture nests. This sandal woven from grasses and twigs, called an agobía, is somewhere between 727 and 771 years old, ...

The bearded vulture, a large bird of prey with an unusual diet consisting primarily of bones, has long fascinated ornithologists. But now, a new study has shown why the bone-eating birds could be even ...

Archaeologists in Spain recently published findings revealing the remarkable contents of bearded vultures' nests – including traces of the Middle Ages. The results, published in the journal Ecology on ...

The Smithsonian Institution museums and the National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute have temporarily closed due to the government shutdown. Because the museums and the zoo are part of the ...

The penguins at the Houston Zoo have temporarily moved "behind the scenes" due to safety concerns about material they could ingest there, according to zoo officials. The zoo's Humboldt penguins moved ...