Twycross Zoo's new red-fronted macaws. (Twycross Zoo via SWNS) By Adam Dutton via SWNS A UK zoo has welcomed two of the world's most endangered parrots as part of a breeding program to help save them ...

The only wild specimens of a rare blue parrot, which were recently returned to their natural habitat, have been diagnosed with an incurable, likely lethal virus, Brazil's government told AFP Thursday.

Researchers report genetic evidence of pre-Hispanic breeding of scarlet macaws, native to Central and South America, in the American Southwest. Scarlet macaws figure prominently in ancient cultures ...

Yet another barrage of bad luck has struck the last remaining Spix’s macaw in the wild. A significant number of the ...

Brazilian police said Wednesday they were probing the outbreak of a lethal virus among some of the last Spix's macaws, one of ...

A previous study that I shared with you indicated that Indigenous people started breeding parrots in captivity more than 1000 years ago (more here). That study found evidence that macaws lived in ...

As the tight beam of the scanning electron microscope focused on a tiny fragment of ancient eggshell, I immediately saw one of the inner shell’s layers had been partially reabsorbed. This exciting ...

The only wild specimens of a rare blue parrot which had only recently been returned to its natural habitat in Brazil have ...

People were breeding scarlet macaws (Ara macao) in what is today New Mexico in the 1100s, according to examination of eggshell found at the Old Town archeological site. Cyler Conrad and colleagues ...

Brazilian police said yesterday they were probing the outbreak of a lethal virus among some of the last Spix’s macaws, one of ...

A UK zoo has welcomed two of the world's most endangered parrots as part of a breeding program to help save them from extinction. The pair of red-fronted macaws have arrived at Twycross Zoo in Little ...