Why it's awesome: These scavenger birds have an unexpected way of keeping predators away — by projectile vomiting stomach acid and semi-digested meat at their attackers. Turkey vultures live in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's not exactly a compliment to be called a vulture. They circle overhead when disaster or death is imminent. They scavenge and ...

The discovery of 33 dead vultures in the Smokies is drawing attention to the important role vultures play and the federal law ...

Multiple Types of Vultures Live in the U.S. Three types of vultures live in the United States—the turkey vulture, black vulture and California condor (which is a vulture bird, despite not having that ...

Turkey vultures never seem to hurry. They glide silently above us, drawing circles in the air, calligraphers with quill pens. They tip and turn up there in the wind, rarely flapping those long willowy ...

As each year passes, if you’ve found yourself preferring to spend your nights and weekends in familiar haunts rather than exploring new places and meeting new people, you might be surprised to learn ...

Endangered Egyptian vultures, with their vivid yellow face and white plumes, would usually be nesting across the Balkans in their dozens by April.

RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources is asking for the public's help after receiving reports of dead black vultures across the state. According to a news release from DWR, ...