Ancient DNA pulled from colorful feathers inside a sealed Peruvian tomb has revealed that pre-Inca societies ran a ...
The team suspected that “these birds were wild-caught in the rainforest, transported alive across the Andes, and kept in ...
Seeing the north coast of Peru for the first time, you would be hard-pressed to believe it’s one of the driest deserts in the world. Parts of the region receive less than an inch of rain in an entire ...
Scientists studied centuries-old bird feathers from an ancient tomb on the coast, and then traced the origins back to the ...
Ancient parrots really got around. A new analysis of their DNA found that humans transported living Amazonian macaw parrots across the Andes mountains to coastal Peru hundreds of years before the Inca ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pre-Hispanic canal funnels water from mountains to farm fields. Ari Caramanica Seeing the north coast of Peru for the first time ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ari Caramanica, Vanderbilt University (THE CONVERSATION) Seeing the north coast of ...