The dark shape moving through the water was a cassowary, a large flightless bird native to northeastern Australia known for its territorial and "dangerous" behavior, per the Department of ...

Along Route 460 in Isle of Wight County, a couple’s farming dreams are unfolding at the speed of an ostrich. Or rather — 21 ...

One of the most infamous cautionary tales of humanity's follies, the reasons behind the extinction of the dodo are even more depressing than you may realize.

New research has confirmed that moa, New Zealand’s giant, flightless birds, went extinct within just 300 years of human arrival. A study published in Science of the Total Environment reveals that ...

Bruce is a 3-year-old male cassowary that will be living in the Wallaroo Walkabout. He came to the Louisville Zoo from ...

Despite being flightless, the ostriches of Africa have distant relations in Australia, New Zealand, and South America. All part of a group called the ratites, these birds share some common ...

The cassowary is often called the world’s most dangerous bird due to its aggressive nature and powerful attacks. Native to Australia and New Guinea, cassowaries are large, flightless birds known ...

How did one cat take out an entire species of bird in the 19th century? Dr Ross Barnett explains more about how human ...

On this week's episode: big bird intelligence, astronauts should jump, sheep and human history, and a tiny great ape.

Take a look at the features of flightless birds like chickens and ostriches ... "We see this cascade of changes that happened along the dinosaur to bird transition," Holliday said. "A large part of it ...