He wrote the book partially in response to European writers like Joseph Conrad, who Achebe said depicted Africa “as ‘the other world,’ the antithesis of Europe and therefore of civilization.” ...

1. The bald neck and bare heads of vultures keep their feathers from sticking to blood while eating corpses. 2. During hot days, vultures engage in a process called urohydrosis. They urinate on their ...

FAUQUIER COUNTY, Va. - A flock of unwanted vultures at Fauquier High School is raising a number of concerns. The vultures tend to congregate around the school farm and present a health risk for ...

The town of Warrenton this week unanimously authorized Fauquier High School to use vulture effigies in an effort to disperse the growing number of black vultures congregating on the school’s campus.

“It feels like a version of looting.” Real estate vultures are circling the middle-class community of Altadena and other burned-out parts of Los Angeles, hungry to turn a profit from fire ...

Speculators call home owners, agents in the wake of the fires Neighborhood northeast of LA was a haven for Black families Danielle Neal is a fourth-generation resident of Altadena who saw the house ...

“It feels like a version of looting.” Real estate vultures are circling the middle-class community of Altadena and other burned out parts of Los Angeles, hungry to turn a profit from fire ...

Join us to hear UK commentator and economic thinker Grace Blakeley talk about her latest book, Vulture Capitalism. In the book, Grace Blakeley takes on the world’s most powerful corporations by ...

However, Ness alleges they were “culture vultures.” That’s a harsh term, but he does back up his claim. You gotta watch, because it’s at the very beginning of the interview. Beyond that ...

Turkey vultures — sometimes called buzzards — are large, dark, hawklike birds with long, broad wings that often soar in groups. Vultures may have a bad reputation, especially to the uninformed, ...

Turkey vultures deter predators by projectile vomiting gastric juices as acidic as battery acid that burns their attacker's skin and eyes. Why it's awesome: These scavenger birds have an ...