Cape Froward Will Be Patagonia’s New National Park at the Edge of the World

At the southernmost tip of South America lies a 400,000-acre wilderness once considered too desolate to survive. Now, a ...
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Ancient parrot DNA points to a pre-Inca trade moving live birds across the Andes

Ancient DNA pulled from colorful feathers inside a sealed Peruvian tomb has revealed that pre-Inca societies ran a ...

Indigenous rangers find rarely seen animals in first camera survey of Truwana

The first camera survey ever conducted on Truwana/Cape Barren Island off Tasmania has recorded two rarely seen animals—white-footed dunnarts and blonde echidnas. A vulnerable shorebird—the Latham's ...

Ancient parrot DNA reveals sophisticated, long-distance animal trade network pre-dating the Inca Empire

New analysis of ancient parrot DNA has revealed that vibrant Amazonian parrots were transported alive across the Andes to coastal Peru centuries before the Inca Empire, highlighting a sophisticated ...