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All European vulture species have been extirpated in the Carpathians for a century; victims of persecution, habitat loss, and ...

(CNN) — The bearded vulture, a large bird of prey with an unusual diet consisting primarily of bones, has long fascinated ornithologists. But now, a new study has shown why the bone-eating birds could ...

An “extraordinary” stash of 600-year-old treasures has been discovered inside several vulture nests in Spain. Archaeologists examining the nests of the bearded vultures in the southern Spanish ...

Archaeologists in Spain recently published findings revealing the remarkable contents of bearded vultures' nests – including traces of the Middle Ages. The results, published in the journal Ecology on ...

What hides in a bearded vulture nest abandoned hundreds of years ago? This was the question posed by Sergio Couto of the University of Granada’s Cultural Archaeology Laboratory (MEMOLab). He began ...

It turns out the bearded vulture—also called the quebrantahuesos, or bonebreaker—isn’t just a carrion scavenger. It’s also a keen collector of human ephemera. This habit has given researchers in ...

Scientists discovered a 675-year-old shoe perfectly preserved in a vulture's nest in Spain. Researchers say a lot can be learned about human history and ecology from studying bearded vulture nests.

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 ...