Flightless species of birds (such as ostriches, which are the largest living birds) tend to outsize any of the largest birds ...
An intact, fossilized specimen of the world’s largest egg—of any known species ever on Earth—entered the National Geographic ...
Study Reveals Ancient Flightless Birds Helped Spreading Colorful Native Fungi, Highlights Ecological Balance It is a finding ...
Paleontologists have uncovered an exceptionally complete skull of a massive bird that lived 45 million years ago. This ...
An emu has been spotted on the run in the Salisbury area since January 2025. This is the second emu to have escaped on ...
New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...
After the Dutch settled its home, the island of Mauritius, in the 17th century, it took less then three decades for the bird, which laid only one egg a year, to go extinct. The odd, flightless ...
Bizarre birds like the Kakapo and Secretary bird are uniquely striking birds, making them the weirdest-looking birds in the ...
Around 45 million years ago, a 4.6 foot-tall (1.40 meters) flightless bird called Diatryma roamed the Geiseltal region in southern Saxony-Anhalt. An international team of researchers led by the ...
Zoologist Andrew Rapp spent four hours hunched over looking through brush and scouring the short grass on the side of the ...
Feral species that prey on New Zealand’s birdlife have caused havoc across both islands, and more than 80 per cent are now ...