Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It turns out the bearded vulture—also called the quebrantahuesos, or bonebreaker—isn’t just a carrion scavenger. It’s also a keen ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This sandal woven from grasses and twigs, called an agobía, is somewhere between 652 and 696 years old, researchers say.

Decades after its release into the wild, a super-ageing, bone-crunching vulture called Balthazar reveals a major conservation ...

Birds of a feather flock together, and in some cases, like with the Bearded Vultures, they nest together with generations of the species living in the same nests for centuries. Like many birds, the ...

Vultures are not known for their museum conservation skills, but perhaps that ought to change. Scientists have discovered an unlikely record of human history deep within layers of bone debris left by ...

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, ...

An “extraordinary” stash of 600-year-old treasures has been discovered inside several vulture nests in Spain. Archaeologists examining the nests of the bearded vultures in the southern Spanish ...

A new study reveals that colonies of critically endangered Rüppell’s vultures are visible via satellite images. A group of researchers scanned more than 6 million square kilometers (2.3 million square ...

"Vultures feed in groups, they nest in flocks, and they fly long distances," Prakash says, all behaviors that facilitate the transmission of disease. Also, the malady appeared to be spreading into ...