People were breeding scarlet macaws (Ara macao) in what is today New Mexico in the 1100s, according to examination of eggshell found at the Old Town archeological site. Cyler Conrad and colleagues ...

A previous study that I shared with you indicated that Indigenous people started breeding parrots in captivity more than 1000 years ago (more here). That study found evidence that macaws lived in ...

As the tight beam of the scanning electron microscope focused on a tiny fragment of ancient eggshell, I immediately saw one of the inner shell’s layers had been partially reabsorbed. This exciting ...