In 1876, during a clear day in Bath County, Kentucky, chunks of meat fell from the sky, mystifying Mrs. Crouch and her ...

Then they waited. The bait successfully attracted vulture bees and some related species of opportunistic meat-eating bees. Stingless bees normally have a basket on their hind legs for collecting ...

A vulture can wolf more than two pounds of meat in a minute ... Inevitably vultures also visit the livestock carcass, or they eat the poisoned lions themselves. Whatever the vector, the birds ...

It only feeds on carrion—the carcasses of dead animals—and, by eating flesh before it rots, the vulture prevents dangerous bacteria and viruses from growing on decomposing carcasses.