Scarlet macaw DNA points to ancient breeding operation in Southwest
Monday, August 13, 2018 - 22:53
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Somewhere in the American Southwest or northern Mexico, there are probably the ruins of a scarlet macaw breeding operation dating to between 900 and 1200 C.E., according to a team of archaeologists who sequenced the mitochondrial DNA of bird remains found in the Chaco Canyon and Mimbres areas of New Mexico.