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Fossils shed light on ‘missing’ Aussie vulture

VULTURES HAVE BEEN absent from Australia’s record of prehistoric species… until now. Fossilised wing bone, identified in 1905 as that of an extinct eagle, has been revealed to belong an Old World vulture.

The renamed (“powerful hidden vulture”) lived during the late Pleistocene

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