Researchers at the University of New Mexico have discovered that a common, prehistoric plant distills water to such an extreme degree that its chemical signature resembles that of meteorites. Led by ...

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Ancient Romans had a big appetite for a certain kind of fish sauce – and a new study is revealing exactly what went into it. Researcher Gonçalo Themudo published his findings in the journal Antiquity ...

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Ancient parrots really got around. A new analysis of their DNA found that humans transported living Amazonian macaw parrots across the Andes mountains to coastal Peru hundreds of years before the Inca ...