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Old bird sparks new joy

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The discovery of an ancient bird at the Wellington Caves has palaeontologists in a flap.

A dig at the Caves by Flinders University and the South Australian Museum has uncovered Australia’s first vulture species, Cryptogyps lacertosus.

The megafauna species had initially been classified as an eagle more than 100 years ago, but lead author Dr Ellen Mather, from the Flinders University palaeontol...


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