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.

A recent study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution has issued an urgent warning. New findings point to rapid extinction events set to occur in the next 100 years across 500 bird species. The slew ...

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Rare attacks helped brand the cassowary as deadly, but habitat loss and human activity now pose a far greater threat to the bird’s survival. A southern cassowary stands on a beach at Etty Bay in ...