It has an incredible 9-foot wingspan. Massive 'bone breaker' bird makes incredible recovery from brink of extinction — here's ...

In a hidden valley in the French Alps, conservationists are quietly raising Europe’s largest bird of prey – the bearded ...

Between 2008 and 2014, scientists rappelled down cliffs to reach a dozen bearded vulture nests and begin analyzing what was ...

Beyond the manufactured relics of our species’ past, archaeologists also catalogued 2,117 bones, 86 hooves, and 43 eggshells.

Bearded vultures have been extinct in southern Spain for 70 to 130 years, depending on the specific region. But while the ...

For centuries, the vultures had been picking up the lost, discarded, and forgotten remnants of human activity from the mountain slopes and carrying them home. These items were likely used to soften ...

11 in the journal Ecology, Margalida and colleagues detailed their study of 12 well-preserved nests of the bearded vulture ... found in the dozen vulture nests were bones, along with several hooves ...

Bearded vultures aren’t the only birds whose nests function as time capsules. For a study published earlier this year, coot nests in Amsterdam were examined to reveal human trash going back decades.

Although there have already been birds that received strap-on artificial legs, scientists are now reporting the first successful integration of a prosthetic foot directly into a stork's residual leg ...

Decades ago, the biggest raptor in Europe—called the bearded vulture or the lammergeier—disappeared from the French Alps. But recently, the birds appeared again, flying high over the mountain range.

Limb replacements have become commonplace for humans who have lost a particular part of their body due to a condition or an accident. Through the years, scientists devise their plans of placing an ...