An emu has been spotted on the run in the Salisbury area since January 2025. This is the second emu to have escaped on ...
Paleontologists have uncovered an exceptionally complete skull of a massive bird that lived 45 million years ago. This ...
Feral species that prey on New Zealand’s birdlife have caused havoc across both islands, and more than 80 per cent are now ...
An intact, fossilized specimen of the world’s largest egg—of any known species ever on Earth—entered the National Geographic ...
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 ...
Bizarre birds like the Kakapo and Secretary bird are uniquely striking birds, making them the weirdest-looking birds in the ...
Flightless species of birds (such as ostriches, which are the largest living birds) tend to outsize any of the largest birds ...
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 ...
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 ...
DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.