I’m about to start my lunch when I’m interrupted by an Andean condor. The vulture hasn’t swooped down from the sky to take my ...

More than one-third of species that eat some amount of carrion are threatened or declining, a new analysis finds, and that ...

Scavengers often get a bad rap — hyena giggles are nefarious, crows gather in “murders” and the naked necks of vultures speak for themselves. But the bodies of the dead don’t just disappear.

“We are lucky that the biggest ones, the Californian and the Andean condors, during the last 20 years were studied more, but is not the case for most vultures … ...

If you look very closely you'll notice that this king vulture chick isn't being fed by it's parents, but by a hand-puppet used by staff at the Bronx Zoo.

The Bronx Zoo is hand-raising a king vulture chick with a hand puppet so the bird doesn't imprint on humans.

A rare king vulture chick has hatched at the Bronx Zoo, hand-raised with a puppet to prevent human imprinting and aid bird conservation.

A rare king vulture chick has hatched at the Bronx Zoo, hand-raised with a puppet to prevent human imprinting and aid bird conservation.