On January 16, 2021, a large, blotchy, elliptical egg began to crack open at the Vulture Conservation and Breeding Centre (VCBC) in Pinjore, Haryana. The captive-bred chick pushed through her calcite ...

Ashley Paul joined the WJZ team in December 2024 as a reporter, and could not be happier to call Charm City home! Ashley has told stories all across the country, including in Maine, Central ...

Bad theater can be uniquely enraging. (Arguably, I’m here writing this because I once got very mad while watching a play.) But it can also be simply baffling. Who approved of this? What does ...

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 ...

Right before Gal Gadot’s Walk of Fame ceremony began late Tuesday morning, several dozen protesters stormed Hollywood Boulevard with signage in hand. Representing both pro-Palestine and pro ...

Valentina Rossi received funding from The Palaeontological Association (UK) and The Paleontological Society (USA). She is currently receiving funding from the European Research Council (H2020-ERC ...

While fossilized feathers are typically found in ancient mudrocks from lakes or lagoons, this specimen was embedded in volcanic ash—an extremely rare occurrence.

A 30,000-year-old vulture feather represents a “two-for-the-price-of one” discovery: the fossil itself, and the first evidence that volcanic ash can preserve such soft tissues in exquisite detail. The ...

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 ...

Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Fabio Lovino, Jake Giles Netter But look closer. Look deeper. Both of them are guided by a similar motivation, a feeling that something was denied to them ...