Vultures are nature’s underappreciated essential workers. Even Charles Darwin, who wrote a dissertation on the lowly earthworm, reportedly called a vulture he saw during his famous voyage on the ...

a pair of white-rumped vultures (Gyps bengalensis) is busy building their nest. They choose a sturdy trunk, high enough to avoid predators and low enough to catch the warm breeze.

Rüppell’s vultures (Gyps rueppelli) feeding in Serengeti National Park. Playing the role of scavengers, vulture are vital cleaners of ecosystems.

But vultures are more vital than vile, because they clean up carcasses that otherwise could rot and spread pestilence. Here a Rüppell’s vulture (Gyps rueppelli) rips tissue from the trachea of ...

Meera Subramanian writes about vultures in Nepal and India, ... In less than two decades, the populations of three common vulture species, from the genus Gyps, ...

A white-rumped vulture (Gyps bengalensis). In all, researchers recovered 14 vulture carcasses: 12 white-rumped vultures and two Himalayan griffons. Image by Allan Hopkins via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Eurasian griffon vultures, or Gyps fulvus, are large vultures that live in the Mediterranean, the Middle East and India. With wingspans up to 9 feet, they're much larger than North American turkey ...

image: Size comparison of Wedge-tailed Eagle (upper left, silhouette based on photo by Vicki Nunn), and Cryptogyps lacertosus (upper right, based on silhouette of modern Gyps vulture). Comparisons ...

The griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus), which was initially uncovered in the Colli Albani volcanic complex southeast of Rome, Italy, in 1889, was found in incredibly good condition — it even had ...

In partially good news that the declines of resident species of Gyps vultures have stopped, but dashes any hopes that there are signs of recovery, a survey data has suggested that the populations ...