A 30,000-year-old vulture feather represents a "two-for-the-price-of one" discovery: the fossil itself, and the first ...

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. The griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus ...

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An analysis of a 30,000-year-old fossil vulture from Central Italy has revealed for the first time that volcanic rock can preserve microscopic details in feathers—the first ever record of such a ...

Seen as harbingers of death and disease, staples of horror films and Halloween decor, vultures actually play an important role in nature.

Laurie Rott took these photos of a group of adult turkey vultures she spotted in a neighbor’s oak tree in Golden Hills, when ...

The birds are widely reviled for their carrion-eating ways. But an evolutionary history of scavenging has forged a creative, cunning and wide-ranging mind.

A 30,000-year-old vulture feather from Central Italy was preserved down to the microscopic level by volcanic rock.