The eye of a cassowary.(Dani Daniar / EyeEm Getty) Loved by European emperors and Queensland beachgoers alike, the nationally endangered southern cassowary now has its very own day on September 26, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A southern cassowary stands on a beach at Etty Bay in Queensland, Australia. These endangered birds can live up to 50 years.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This baby bird has gone wee wee all the way and managed to find himself a new home. It would also appear that the baby cassowary ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. When we think of flightless birds, aggressive is probably ...

Why it's awesome: The southern cassowary is one of the most prehistoric-looking birds on Earth. They are often likened to a modern-day dinosaur due to their massive size, vivid colouration and ...

It’s been called the world’s most dangerous bird. Its long dagger-like toes, in fact, were responsible for the death of a man in Florida last year. But what excites scientists about the cassowary — a ...

Peanut, as he has been named by locals, is regularly spotted wandering through Sue and Peter Leach’s backyard but on Monday the large native bird decided the grass looked greener inside their house.

We explore how modern birds - the last living dinosaurs - have adapted to dominate land, air, and even extreme environments across the planet. Despite their often overlooked nature, some species ...

Ripe fruit plunks to the ground and rolls to the road at my left. That instant, the cassowary bursts from a tangle of ferns outside Clump Mountain National Park near Mission Beach, Australia. The bird ...

A Florida man was killed on Friday by what ornithologists say is an extremely dangerous bird. It was a cassowary – an enormous, flightless bird around which even experienced zookeepers take ...

Works on the first-ever bridge for FNQ’s famous cassowaries will start next month, helping them safely cross the Bruce Highway by linking tracts of world heritage-listed rainforest currently separated ...