''Torgos'' is a genus of

Old World vulture Old World vultures are vultures that are found in the Old World, i.e. the continents of Europe, Asia and Africa, and which belong to the family Accipitridae, which also includes eagles, buzzards, kites, and hawks. Old World vultures are not ...

that contains two species, an extant species, the lappet-faced vulture (''Torgos tracheliotos'') and the fossil species '' Torgos platycephalus'' from the late

Pleistocene The Pleistocene ( ; referred to colloquially as the ''ice age, Ice Age'') is the geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. Before a change was fin ...

of Azerbaijan and an unnamed fossil species from middle Pleistocene China.

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Accipitridae Bird genera with one living species {{Accipitriformes-stub