Turkeys were domesticated by both the pre-Aztec people in south-central Mexico and the Ancestral Puebloans on the Colorado Plateau, according to studies by Camilla Speller and Dongya Yang of Washington State University. The birds were initially kept for their feathers, and only became an important food source for the Ancestral Puebloans around 1100 A.D. A […]

 Three Neanderthal teeth have reportedly been discovered in a cave in Poland, along with stone and bone tools and the bones of woolly mammoths and woolly rhinoceros. Machu Picchu will be closed until the railway and roads can be repaired after massive flood damage. The last of the stranded tourists were flown out by helicopter […]