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  "description": "“I think we often underestimate their capabilities,” said one of the researchers who uncovered  a pre-Inca trade route linking the Amazon rainforest to the Pacific coast.",
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  "textContent": "🌘\n\n****Subscribe********to 404 Media to get**** _****The Abstract****_****, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week.****\n\nColorful feathers found in an ancient tomb on Peru’s coast once belonged to parrots captured deep in the Amazon rainforest, reports _a study published on Tuesday_ in _Nature Communications_. The discovery provides direct evidence of long-distance trade networks that flourished across the Andes centuries before the expansion of the Inca Empire in 1470, proving that these cultures developed sophisticated economic systems capable of transporting live tropical birds across treacherous environments.\n\n### This post is for subscribers only\n\nBecome a member to get access to all content\n\nSubscribe now",
  "title": "Scientists Discover Vast Ancient Trade Network That Rewrites History with Parrot DNA",
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