An intact, fossilized specimen of the world’s largest egg—of any known species ever on Earth—entered the National Geographic ...

Flightless species of birds (such as ostriches, which are the largest living birds) tend to outsize any of the largest birds ...

Paleontologists have uncovered an exceptionally complete skull of a massive bird that lived 45 million years ago. This ...

Study Reveals Ancient Flightless Birds Helped Spreading Colorful Native Fungi, Highlights Ecological Balance It is a finding that sounds like something out of a scientific whodunit. Still, it's real: ...

An emu has been spotted on the run in the Salisbury area since January 2025. This is the second emu to have escaped on ...

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 ...

New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...

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 ...

Boast and a team of researchers, for example, are using fossilized dung to learn more about the diets of extinct flightless birds called moa that once roamed around New Zealand. Coprolites helped ...

Feral species that prey on New Zealand’s birdlife have caused havoc across both islands, and more than 80 per cent are now ...

Around 45 million years ago, a 4.6 feet-tall (1.40 meters) flightless bird called Diatryma roamed the Geiseltal region in southern Saxony-Anhalt. An international team of researchers report on the ...