One of a pair of young bearded vultures, a species which disappeared from Germany but was later reintroduced, has been found dead. Female bearded vulture pair Wally and Bavaria were released into the ...

Although there have already been birds that received strap-on artificial legs, scientists are now reporting the first successful integration of a prosthetic foot directly into a stork's residual leg ...

(CNN) — The bearded vulture, a large bird of prey with an unusual diet consisting primarily of bones, has long fascinated ornithologists. But now, a new study has shown why the bone-eating birds could ...

With Oskar Aszmann and his team at the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, MedUni Vienna has long been regarded as a world leader in bionic limb reconstruction. It was only ...

Experts with the Medical University of Vienna have announced the first 'bionic bird.' Building on work previously only see on humans, the team implanted a permanent bionic limb in a bearded vulture, ...

Scientists at the Medical University of Vienna, some of the world's foremost experts on limb reconstruction among them, created what they call the world's "first bionic bird" in 2018 by designing a ...

Limb replacements have become commonplace for humans who have lost a particular part of their body due to a condition or an accident. Through the years, scientists devise their plans of placing an ...

Scientists found a 700-year-old sandal and other medieval objects preserved in bearded vulture nests, which act like natural time capsules in Spain’s mountain caves.