Black vultures have fatter, more paddle-like wings and a shorter, more fanned tail. Except when they’re launching, turkey vultures rarely flap their wings. They soar on thermals and updrafts.

One of the flutes is made of a vulture wing bone and is about a foot long. The other flutes were made out of mammoth tusks. The early musicians clearly had leisure time not only to play, but to ...

Turkey vultures tilt or rock their six-foot wingspan as they fly with their wings in a V pattern. The scavengers with the bald bright-red heads are not uncommon in Minnesota, where they nest in ...

Black Vulture wings are all black except for silvery tips. Turkey Vultures soar lazily, teetering back and forth for long periods with few wing beats.

Well-preserved fossils of ancient large reptiles called pterosaurs have revealed that some species flew by flapping their wings, while others soared like vultures, according to a new study ...

Other April events Pasqueflowers, spring beauties, chiming bells and milkvetches bloom in the foothills, and the rare Bell’s twinpod blooms along U.S. 36 roadcuts. Wild asparagus sprouts alon… ...

The Andean Condor, for example, is a New World vulture that can weigh up to a whopping 33 pounds and live up to a century. So a 30-pound child would at the very least need wings this size to fly.