By its simplest definition, a vulture is a bird of prey that feeds on carrion, which is the meat of dead animals. The media ...

On a May morning in Pokhara, Nepal’s tourist town in the lap of the world-famous Annapurna range, 40-year-old Hemanta Dhakal ...

Caught in an undignified situation, humiliated by a hot, skinnier love interest, Jessica was the latest incarnation of the ...

Cannon came into entertainment as a 15-year-old stand-up comic before getting his big break on TV as a cast member of ...

Black vultures crowd around an unconcerned black bear at Cameron Park Zoo earlier this year. Vultures perch on a light fixture at the zoo.

Bird flu fears have focused on the poultry and dairy industries and human health. But wild animals are threatened, too—at ...

The virus, which scientists call H5N1, has spread like wildfire around the globe in recent years, surprising and horrifying ...

One of the victims of the tragedy has been immortalised with a harrowing photograph, as teenager Omayra Sánchez Garzón spent 60 hours trapped underneath volcanic mudflow known as lahars. Harrowing TV ...

Two decades ago squeaks at Hanningfield alerted conservationists to the presence of soprano pipistrelles, which are among the ...

Weighing up to 30 pounds and supported by short, stubby orange legs with webbed feet, the American white pelican waddles like penguins when moving on land. All the while, a supersized orange bill juts ...

Spain has recently been rising up against mass tourism, with protests in places from Barcelona to the Balearics. But country ...

When Ottawa homicide detective Charlie Pike is sent to Northern Ontario to help search for the bodies of two Ojibway boys ...