[Rockhounds] A 30, 000-Year-Old Feather Is a First-of-Its-Kind Fossil - Eos

Jeffrey Joy jeffreyjoy at gmail.com
Sat Apr 19 15:46:10 PDT 2025


Paleontologists have discovered a new way for fossil feathers to fossilize in volcanoclastic deposits! The feathers of this Late Pleistocene griffon vulture are preserved in 3D, including melanosomes, mineralized in zeolite.

https://eos.org/articles/a-30000-year-old-feather-is-a-first-of-its-kind-fossil


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