Scientists in Spain analyzed the abandoned “ancient nests” of bone-eating vultures and found centuries-old artifacts, photos show. Photo from Sergio Couto via Margalida, Couto, Pinedo, Gil-Sánchez, ...

(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 ...

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 ...

The lammergeier is a striking bird, with black and white markings on its head. What is a nice meal to you? Pizza? A salad? Tacos? While those might sound good to a human being, the lammergeier ...