AUBURNDALE, Fla. — The National Transportation Safety Board released a preliminary report Wednesday on a plane crash that killed a Polk County husband and wife in December. The single-engine ...

Morning is often about watching wildlife here on Mt. Hoo. It’s more unusual when the wildlife is watching me. Looking out the kitchen window while waiting for coffee to brew, there was a huge turkey ...

For the 25th anniversary of Something Wild, we share this archive episode from 2017, featuring former Outside/In host Sam Evans-Brown. Something Wild was in Sutton to track turkey vultures discovered ...

Fossilized vulture feathers that were stunningly preserved in volcanic ash were a mystery until now. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Turkey vultures never seem to hurry. They glide silently above us, drawing circles in the air, calligraphers with quill pens. They tip and turn up there in the wind, rarely flapping those long willowy ...

A preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board sheds light on what possibly caused a small plane to crash in December in Polk County, killing a Winter Haven couple. Bird feathers ...

Biologist Bracken Brown couldn’t believe his eyes when he spotted the seemingly out-of-place bird soaring through the sky. “I always enjoy doing roost counts, watching a column of vultures catch ...

A 30,000-year-old fossilized vulture from Italy has provided scientists with an unprecedented glimpse into how volcanic rock can preserve microscopic feather details. This discovery is the first to ...

OK, you recognize those turkey vultures you see soaring overhead on a summer day — long wings, long tail, wings raised into a shallow “vee.” But what are those birds that are often seen soaring with ...

What image comes to mind when you hear the word vulture? When I close my eyes, I picture omens of death, circling ominously overhead as if in an old Western movie. Or my stomach is turned by imagining ...

Scientists have finally solved the mystery of how the fossilized feathers of a 30,000-year-old vulture were preserved with such unprecedented levels of detail. The griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus), which ...