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.
Category: 9. Sci/Tech
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Ancient DNA Reveals a Pre-Inca Trade Network That Carried Parrots Alive Across the Andes to Coastal Peru
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Raccoons May Thrive in Our Backyards Due to Their Insatiable Curiosity and Love for Puzzles
Raccoons continued exploring a multi-access puzzle box long after finding the treat, showing their urban success may stem from their drive to learn.
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Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas Has Another Surprise: It’s Full of Alcohol
Comet 3I/Atlas is now heading out of the solar system and into interstellar space, but scientists are still analyzing the data it left behind as it passed through our cosmic neighborhood. A new study, still under review, reveals a surprising…
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Drone Footage Captures Rare Moments of Finless Porpoises Caring for Others’ Calves
Learn how drone footage revealed narrow-ridged finless porpoises interacting with and possibly caring for calves that aren’t their own.
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Would You Jump Into Your Local River? Swimmable Cities May Be Within Reach as Once-Polluted Waterways Are Restored
Efforts to improve the “swimmability” of urban areas are gaining global traction, from Paris to Chicago
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Why are languages spoken at different speeds?
Have you ever switched audio language halfway through a movie? Although foreign…
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Hidden Crotch Detail Solves a 500-Year-Old Leonardo Da Vinci Mystery : ScienceAlert
Leonardo da Vinci, the famous Italian polymath who painted the Mona Lisa, had a sophisticated geometric understanding far ahead of his time.
To draw the Vitruvian Man in 1490 – an illustration of the ‘ideal’ human body – the Renaissance…
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