Native scavengers may be exploiting Burmese python nests to their benefit but it's unclear how often it is happening.

Vultures are often vilified simply because of how they look. They are seen as unclean and unnecessary creatures, which has led to mass poisoning in the past. However, most vultures help clean up the ...

More than 500 endangered vultures died after eating three poisoned elephant carcasses killed by poachers, the Botswana government said in a statement Thursday. More than 500 endangered vultures died ...

Since the 1950s, humanity has produced an estimated 8.3bn tons of plastic, adding a further 380m tons to this amount each year. Only 9% of this gets recycled. The inevitable result is that plastic is ...

Scientists in Spain analyzed the abandoned “ancient nests” of bone-eating vultures and found centuries-old artifacts, photos show. Photo from Sergio Couto via Margalida, Couto, Pinedo, Gil-Sánchez, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vultures can projectile vomit up to 10 feet to escape predators. Vultures have stomach acid with a pH between zero and one.

In the cliffs of southern Spain sit "ancient nests" built by bone-eating vultures but left abandoned since the birds went locally extinct roughly a century ago. The "well-preserved" nests hid many ...