Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Vultures in the Indian subcontinent dropped from a thriving ...

High above fields, highways and suburbs, dark wings often trace slow circles over the same patch of ground, a sight that has long signaled trouble to anyone watching from below. Those spiraling birds ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. The 11th annual Vulture Festival spread its wings on Saturday, Oct. 26 as Athenians ...

Vultures, often thought of as the birds of death and decay, have a reputation for scavenging roadkill and signaling mortality from the sky. However, the black vulture is also known for attacking and ...

Over the past year, more than 2,700 vultures were driven out of Derry Township and 64 were killed as part of a growing effort to manage the birds’ increasing population and property damage. The ...

Johnson traveled to Bikaner, Hyderabad and Bangalore to report this story. This reporting was supported by the Pulitzer Center....more Johnson traveled to Bikaner, Hyderabad and Bangalore to report ...

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but it's fair to assume that vulture looks are an acquired taste. The hook-beaked, scrawny-necked and chunky-bodied birds were immediately described as ...

Researchers in Costa Rica found that pig carcasses decomposed twice as fast when vultures had access to them compared to carcasses where vultures were excluded. The absence of vultures led to a ...

For centuries, hooded vultures in West Africa have lived in close association with people in towns and cities. The vultures’ dependence on scraps thrown out has grown in line with the overhunting of ...

From Spider-Man’s arch-nemesis, The Vulture, in Spider-Man: Homecoming, to the cackling vultures in Disney’s 1937 version of Snow White, or the villainous Vlad Vladikoff from Dr Seuss’ Horton Hears a ...