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“It seems almost hard to believe, and why would they be coming into the cave?”

Fossils from an ancient wildcat in Natural Bridge Caverns. University of Texas at Austin researchers will be collecting this fossil…

It turns out, parrots aren't only found in rainforests or on a pirate's shoulder — at one time, they were native to Arizona, too.John Moretti started with a bag of bones leftover at a museum and ended up finding out that one type of parrot, at least, was native to northern Arizona’s pine forests.Moretti is a paleontologist and doctoral candidate at the University of Texas.The

About four years ago, John Moretti, a doctoral candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, was digging through animal bones found at the Bonnell archaeological site in southeastern New Mexico when he found one that stood out. He later identified this bone as belonging to a parrot that was once native to New Mexico, […]

The study calls into question the widely held belief that all parrot remains discovered in American Southwest archaeological sites originated in Mexico.