Caribbean parrots thought to be endemic are actually relicts of millennial-scale extinction

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Sep 25, 2023, 3:00 pm172 pts
In a new study published in PNAS, researchers have extracted the first ancient DNA from Caribbean parrots, which they compared with genetic sequences from modern birds. Working with fossils and archaeological specimens, they showed that two species thought to be endemic to particular islands were once more…

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