A 30,000-year-old vulture fossil was found in volcanic rock. Scientists discovered microscopic feather details preserved in ...

"Fossil feathers are usually preserved in ancient mudrocks laid down in lakes or lagoons. The fossil vulture is preserved in ...

A surprising discovery in the feathers of a fossil vulture from central Italy has revealed that volcanic deposits can ...

This discovery marks the first-ever record of such preservation, representing an entirely new form of soft tissue ...

Credit: Edoardo Terranova Scientists have finally solved the mystery of how the fossilized feathers of a 30,000-year-old vulture were preserved with such unprecedented levels of detail.

Commonly known as the white scavenger vulture or Pharaoh's chicken, the Egyptian vulture is a small Old World vulture in the monotypic genus Neophron. Egyptian vultures primarily feed on carrion ...

Died 30,000 years ago, discovered 136 years ago and disrupting the field of palaeontology just this week – the surprising ...

The Cape vulture (Gyps coprotheres), also known as Cape griffon and Kolbe’s vulture, is an Old World vulture in the family Accipitridae. It is endemic to southern Africa, and lives mainly in ...