Ancient Australian Fossil Revealed To Be The Only Vulture Ever Found In This Country
For more than a century, evolutionary biologists assumed that the specimen found in South Australia was that of the mighty grave eagle (Taphaetus lacertosus). Nevertheless, a new study has announced a true classification system: it is a vulture, and it is a first in the country. Ancient Vulture Fossil The predatory vulture Cryptogyps lacertosus, meaning powerful hidden vulture, existed between 500 and 50,000 years ago, according to fossils. This is an ‘Old World’ eagle, and a comparable species may still be seen today – but not in Australia, according to Science Alert. The categorization shows how the diversity of megafauna as well as various species existed on this part of the planet throughout the Pleistocene epoch, which lasted about 2.5 million years and ended about 11,700 years ago. Meanwhile, according to Flinders University paleontologist Ellen Mather’s interview with The Guardian, researchers examined archaeological evidence of flying birds from around the world, and then it