The Halloween decorations popping up on store shelves often depict cartoon vultures perched atop haunted houses, the foggy castles shrouded in mist and gloom. Stream Los Angeles News for free, 24/7, ...

The birds are widely reviled for their carrion-eating ways. But an evolutionary history of scavenging has forged a creative, cunning and wide-ranging mind. Lappet-faced vultures, Shredder and Kenya, ...

It's not exactly a compliment to be called a vulture. They circle overhead when disaster or death is imminent. They scavenge and scrounge, feeding on things killed by nature or man, feasting on the ...