A 30,000-year-old vulture feather from Central Italy was preserved down to the microscopic level by volcanic rock.

In 1889 in the foothills of Mount Tuscolo, 25km south-east of Rome, farm workers discovered something extraordinary. While ...

However, fossils showing soft body parts of these ... not unlike the human bodies entombed at Pompeii in Italy by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. We scanned the specimens with X-rays to reveal ...

Scientists have finally solved the mystery of how the fossilized feathers of a 30,000-year-old vulture were preserved with ...

In the center of it all, a clothed woman awaits her initiation into the cult. Pompeii is full of colorful frescoes, but this one is particularly rare. The only other large wall painting depicting ...

Whereas in Pompeii the streets were buried under more ... and subsequent rapid cooling to create the glass brain fossil. (This is why glass rarely forms in nature, as it requires liquid material ...

Even if recovered, illegally removed fossils have diminished scientific ... Some scientists call Liaoning a Mesozoic Pompeii, evoking the ancient Roman city where humans were entombed by the ...

ROME - Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered rare, nearly life-sized frescoes that offer fresh insight into religious practices in the ancient city before it was destroyed by Mount Vesuvius in ...

Two of the area's most iconic locales – Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii – can be found roughly 15 miles away from central Naples. Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland ...

Volcanic deposits in central Italy have remarkably preserved the delicate tissue structures of a fossil vulture, including ...