Although bearded vultures disappeared from southern Spain nearly a century ago, their nests still cling to the cliffs of the ...

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 ...

Scientists say centuries of human life have been preserved inside bearded vulture nests in Spain, finding hundreds of human ...

Beyond the manufactured relics of our species’ past, archaeologists also catalogued 2,117 bones, 86 hooves, and 43 eggshells.

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

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 ...

Scientists in Spain have discovered 12 ancient nests once used by the Bearded Vulture — a bone-eating bird that vanished from the region nearly a century ago. The nests, some dating back over 650 ...

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 ...

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