Creature of the day: The Lammergeier 🦅🦅 The bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), also known as the Lammergeier and Ossifrage, is a very large bird of prey in the monotypic genus Gypaetus. The bearded vulture is the only known vertebrate whose diet consists of 70–90% bone. Traditionally considered an Old World vulture, it actually forms a separate minor lineage of Accipitridae together with the Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus), its closest living relative. It is not much more closely re

Follow for more archaeology! - Bearded vultures are endangered with only 100 breading pairs in the Pyrenees but are clearly amazing at conservation and I’ve never seen one and a conservator in the same room at the same time. Clearly all conservators are bearded vultures in disguise. - But no seriously this is such a cool discovery and to have a grass shoe preserved like this is so incredibly rare so big up vultures! The nests the artefacts were found in had sadly been abandoned for a while due t