While fishing off the Florida Keys near Islamorada on Jan. 19, they found a pile of around 150 vultures in the water that had apparently fallen out of the sky and into the Gulf. Most of the turkey ...

The corpses they ritually place on elevated stone platforms for “sky burial”—in which vultures liberate the souls of the dead so that they can reach heaven—were taking months longer to ...

From perched trees to sky-high spirals above carcasses, the vultures were indispensable to the subcontinent’s ecosystem. By 2007, their numbers had plummeted by 97% to 99.9%, with the white ...

In Tibet, birds of prey play a pivotal role in Sky Burials, and elsewhere ... Anthropology Research Facility in Texas has ...