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

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 ...

Discovered in Australia, the fossils represent a new species that lived during the Miocene epoch and highlight how iron-rich ...

Paleontologists have unveiled a 30,000-year-old vulture fossil in Italy, preserved in volcanic ash, showcasing microscopic ...

You don't have to do fieldwork to make the next great scientific discovery. Sometimes, amazing finds are hiding right under your nose.

"They did not know that this was an actual fossil itself. Some were thinking that it was a replica," Australian ...

Anatolia, the western part of modern-day Turkey that sits at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, is a fossil-rich ...

“We never expected to find delicate tissues such as feathers preserved in a volcanic rock.” Using electron microscopes and chemical tests, the researchers analysed samples of the fossil ...

Researchers found that the volcanic rock preserving the feather holds microscopic details preserved within the fossil. The team’s research—published today in Geology—found that the feathers ...

to undertake its extremely challenging extraction from the rock.” The fossils were in a tidal zone, making their extraction not only difficult but also dangerous, researchers said. Panciroli ...