Parrots are vibrant, charismatic, and fascinating creatures. They have become popular pets, but they are a huge ...

The team suspected that “these birds were wild-caught in the rainforest, transported alive across the Andes, and kept in ...

An ancient city has been unveiled by archaeologists in Peru. Located in the Huaura province, Peñico has opened to the public after nearly a decade of excavation and conservation efforts. Newsweek has ...

Scientists studied centuries-old bird feathers from an ancient tomb on the coast, and then traced the origins back to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient city of Penico unearthed in Peru (Peru Ministry of Culture) Researchers uncovered a circular structure on a hillside in ...

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 ...

Learn how ancient DNA and isotope analysis revealed that Amazon parrots were transported alive across the Andes to coastal Peru in a pre-Inca trade network.

New research suggests seabird guano helped transform the Chincha Kingdom into one of the most prosperous societies in ancient Peru. Chemical clues in centuries-old maize show farmers fertilized their ...

Chachapoyas means “cloud forest” or “people of the clouds.” It refers to a pre-Incan civilization found in northern Peru. And when you’re standing atop the ancient Kuélap Fortress—at an elevation of ...

UC Merced student Sabrina Nino presents early findings of isotopic analysis of pre-Hispanic Chinchu agricultural practices at a meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropology. The ...