In the cliffs of southern Spain sit “ancient nests” built by bone-eating vultures but left abandoned since the birds went locally extinct roughly a century ago. The “well-preserved” nests hid many ...

When you go investigating for one discovery and much more is found, it really can feel like valuable treasure.

Scientists in Spain have discovered 12 ancient nests once used by the Bearded Vulture — a bone-eating bird that vanished from ...

When people talk about wildlife, we often hear about tigers, elephants, or peacocks. But some animals don’t get much ...

Between 2008 and 2014, scientists rappelled down cliffs to reach a dozen bearded vulture nests and begin analyzing what was ...

Researchers found over 200 cultural artifacts within nests of bearded vultures, with the oldest item to date — a woven sandal ...

For centuries, the vultures had been picking up the lost, discarded, and forgotten remnants of human activity from the ...

Equally remarkable was the discovery of a fragment of ochre-painted sheep leather, confirmed through proteomic analysis, dating back 651 years. A basketry fragment from another nest proved to be from ...

Researchers investigating a vulture nest in a cliff cave in southern Spain discovered an unusual piece of footwear — a grass ...

A 700-year-old sandal and several other hand-crafted cultural artifacts were found in the breeding nest of a bone-eating ...