An extraordinary discovery in the Peruvian Andes is astonishing the scientific community. An international team of researchers has announced the discovery of a new species of fossil fern, named ...

Jack Capener will share insights from Andean indigenous life at the talk in Galashiels, exploring Scottish and Peruvian mountain cultures.

A new discovery reveals over 5,000 perfectly aligned pits on a hillside in Peru.

Retirees are stretching their dollars in South America. Five cities offer UNESCO heritage sites, quality health care, and ...

Centuries before the rise of the Inca Empire, a much smaller kingdom on the central coast of Peru already had a sophisticated ...

Deep canyons in the Andes are the perfect location to catch the most energetic particles in the universe. Carlos ...

Ancient DNA reveals pre-Inca societies transported live Amazonian parrots across the formidable Andes mountains.

A new study shows that parrots and Amazon macaws were traded across the Andes for elite feather ornaments long before 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 ...

Ancient DNA and other clues from feathers found in modern Peru hint that the ancient Ychsma culture imported birds from the distant Amazon.

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 ...

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