Parrots are famously talkative, and a blue-fronted Amazon parrot named Moises -- or at least its genome -- is telling scientists volumes about the longevity and highly developed cognitive abilities ...

The blue-fronted Amazon parrot lives up to 66 years in the wild. Deni Williams via Wikicommons under CC BY-SA 2.0 license Deni Williams In general, a bird’s lifespan tends to correlate with its size.

The newly identified Blue-winged Amazon parrot has a loud, short call and evolved from the White-fronted parrot quite recently, about 120,000 years ago. In 2014, during a visit to a remote part of the ...

A genome analysis of traits in parrots and 26 other bird species revealed that parrots and other long-lived birds share high rates of conserved mutations in genes responsible for supporting an ...

The term parrot encompasses many bird species. A group given the scientific name Amazona includes about 30 species of parrots native to the New World. With the discovery of a new parrot species in ...