More than one-third of species that eat some amount of carrion are threatened or declining, a new analysis finds, and that ...

By Mongabay.com Scavengers aren’t the most charismatic of animals, but they perform a vital task: by eating carrion, they remove dead animals from our environments. Yet large-bodied scavengers are ...

Nature’s cleanup crew in action! A field cricket and a carrion beetle meet over a pile of animal droppings. Strange? Maybe. But essential for the ecosystem!

Scavengers often get a bad rap — hyena giggles are nefarious, crows gather in “murders” and the naked necks of vultures speak for themselves. But the bodies of the dead don’t just disappear.

Goldfinch4ever / Getty Images. As their name suggests, carrion beetles eat dead animals. These insects also lay their eggs on the deceased animals so their larvae can eat the meat when developing.

Crows can detect geometric patterns and odd shapes, revealing new insights into non-human cognition and visual reasoning.

A study finds that carrion crows can be taught to count and make vocalizations that indicate the number counted, much in the same way that human toddlers do.