"Fossil feathers are usually preserved in ancient mudrocks laid down in lakes or lagoons. The fossil vulture is preserved in ash deposits, which is extremely unusual," study lead author Valentina ...

Vultures have an image problem. Seen as ugly and associated with death, they are among the least loved animals in the world.

Why conservationists are trying to improve the image of a bird associated with death - Vultures have an image crisis and are ...

"The fine preservation of the feather structures indicates that the vulture carcass was entombed in a low-temperature pyroclastic deposit." Prof. Dawid A. Iurino (University of Milan), coordinator ...

More vultures will likely join the banquet. They can strip a carcass clean in minutes. Blood drips from a Rüppell’s vulture’s beak as it pauses mid-meal. The neck and head of Rüppell’s are ...

A digital painting of the possible scenario before the vulture carcass was buried in a cloud of volcanic ash. | Credit: Dawid A. Iurino The fact that these feathers were preserved in zeolite ...

27 vultures were spotted in Cambodia’s Eastern Plains landscape during WWF’s recent ‘vulture restaurant’ effort. The feeding stations are a valuable research and conservation tool and involve ...

Once a vulture detects a carcass, it signals other vultures by wheeling in the sky. It can only eat animals that have soft tissue, as its beak is unable to rip through tough skin. Upon finding ...

As many as 40 million of the birds once inhabited the region. Obstreperous flocks of vultures thronged carcass dumps, nested on every tall tree and cliff ledge, and circled high overhead ...

I'd seen nothing but black vultures for weeks,' he says. 'So I'd been to the nearest town, 40 kilometres [25 miles] away from where I was staying in northern Costa Rica, to see if I could scrounge a ...

‘The Doom of the Alban Hills’ a digital painting representing a possible scenario of the moments before the vulture carcass was entombed in the pyroclastic current. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAler ...