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

A team of researchers from Peru, Spain, the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia analyzed parrot feathers that were discovered at Pachacamac in present-day Peru. The village on the central ...

The hyper-arid coastal desert of Peru is an unlikely place to find the electric-blue and brilliant scarlet feathers of tropical rainforest parrots. Yet, during a 2005 excavation at the religious ...

Álvaro Mangino Schmid, one of the 16 survivors of the 1972 Andes plane crash, passed away in Montevideo just one day before his 71st birthday due to respiratory issues from pneumonia. Last year, after ...

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

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.

On October 13, 1972, the Andes mountains witnessed the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. Forty five passengers and crew, including 19 members of the Old Christians Club rugby union team, along ...

"Society of the Snow" is earning raves for its a ccurate depiction of the terrifying 1972 plane crash in the Andes mountains that involved a Uruguayan rugby team. The new Netflix drama, directed by ...

Ecuador has announced the creation of a new biological corridor designed to connect the eastern ranges of the Andes with the Amazon Rainforest, part of a larger initiative to strengthen ecological ...

Professor of archaeology at the University of São Paulo, challenged longstanding academic assumptions in a virtual lecture.