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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 30,000-year-old fossilized vulture from Italy has provided scientists with an unprecedented glimpse into how volcanic rock can ...

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A recent study of the 121-million-year-old fossil shows the bird had tail feathers twice the length of its body.

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Dubbed the “Banko’s feather dragon,” the extinct bird’s tail feathers were twice the length of its entire body.

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), which ...

Paleontologists have discovered Plumadraco bankoorum, a new species of bird from 121 million years ago in China. This "feather dragon" possessed two tail feathers twice the length of its body, likely ...