If you’ve ever been out in the New Zealand wilderness, you might have heard a distinctive, low-frequency tone. It sounds less ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

An elderly man has been left badly injured by what emergency services have described as a “cassowary attack” in North ...

Traffic police act quickly after spotting large bird on busy road Cairo: Traffic police in the Saudi port city of Jeddah successfully contained a large ostrich that had escaped from a nature ...

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

New research shows how physical changes in the skull affected the mechanics of the way birds move and use their beaks to eat and explore their habitats -- adaptations that helped them evolve into the ...