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

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

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.

Behind every meal served to a soldier, sailor, airman, Guardian, or Marine, the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps is working hard to make sure that food is safe.

Tens of thousands of turkey vultures glide over the Detroit River, offering citizen scientists a surprising highlight of hawk ...

Large scavengers like vultures and hyenas do an important job in protecting human health. But studies show these creatures ...

The eastern box turtle represents holding on and surviving, sticking its neck out, which led to its status as a state symbol ...

A rebate program offers to pay hunters for copper-based bullets in an attempt to conserve eagles. The Alaska Copper Ammo ...

New research finds that the global decline of scavengers like hyenas and vultures is putting ecosystems—and human health—at ...