Many of these live on remote islands, like the Inaccessible Island rail, the smallest flightless bird in the world, which lives on an extinct volcano that is nearly 1,550 miles (2,500 km ...

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 ...

More than 99% of birds can fly. But that still leaves many species that evolved to be flightless, including penguins, ostriches, and kiwi birds. In a new study in the journal Evolution ...

In a new study in the journal Evolution, researchers compared the feathers and bodies of different species of flightless birds and their closest relatives who can still fly. They were able to ...

But make no mistake, the stars of the soon-to-be-called Kampe Bullis Farm Brewery are the flightless, yet fast ostriches. And while watering the birds, there was a commotion out front.

The only flightless bird in Japan spends most of its time on ... and the introduction of the mongoose in 1910, to kill vipers, nearly wiped them out. It turns out that the nocturnal “habu ...