One vulture head — dried, ground up and mixed with other herbs — can treat up to 300 people, according to Sita, as only a small amount is used. The heads sell for relatively low prices ...

However, over the years, much of the fossil was lost, with only the feathers of one wing and the bird's head and neck ...

In 1889 in the foothills of Mount Tuscolo, 25km south-east of Rome, farm workers discovered something extraordinary. While ...

They can strip a carcass clean in minutes. Blood drips from a Rüppell’s vulture’s beak as it pauses mid-meal. The neck and head of Rüppell’s are sparsely feathered, the better to keep gore ...

In February 2013, local villagers informed staff of WWF and the Cambodian Government’s Forestry Administration that two more chicks of the critically endangered Red-headed Vulture hatched in a nest on ...

Thus, in the 1970s, biologists from the Frankfurt Zoological Society and elsewhere decided to try to reestablish a bearded vulture population in the Alps by introducing captive-bred birds into the ...

Scientists have finally solved the mystery of how the fossilized feathers of a 30,000-year-old vulture were preserved with such unprecedented levels of detail. The griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus ...