Caribbean parrots, considered endemic, are actually remnants of a millennia-long extinction event
The authors pieced together the long history of the parrot family Amazona, focusing on two species, the Cuban (A. leucocephala) and Hispaniolan (A. ventralis) parrots, for which they were able to obtain ancient DNA samples. Credit: Kristen Grace in a new study published in PNAS, researchers have isolated the first ancient DNA from Caribbean … Read more