A 13-million-year-old leg bone from an enormous flightless bird carries crocodilian tooth marks, showing South America was ...

Many birds fly, but some, like penguins and ostriches, don't, revealing an evolutionary twist. Flightless birds adapted to land or water when survival didn't require flying. Lacking a keel, crucial ...

A species of huge, flightless bird that once inhabited New Zealand disappeared around 600 years ago, shortly after human settlers first arrived on the country’s two main islands. Now, a Texas ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. Now, a ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Research linking New Zealand's diminutive kiwi with a giant extinct bird from Africa is prompting scientists to rethink how flightless birds evolved. A report ...

Ostriches and emus are famously large flightless birds, but not everyone is familiar with the cassowary, a bird native to New Guinea and parts of Australia. Cassowaries can be aggressive and they ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century.

A flightless bird with a strong personality was found hundreds of miles away from home in New Zealand — the first local sighting of the creature in decades. Conservation experts are confused ...

The ancient birds were bred and consumed by humans 18,000 years ago according to a new study. Alamy Stock Photo These ferocious, flightless fowl were once both pets and food to people.

The rare find is dramatic because flightless birds on small islands are especially vulnerable to human activities. The crow-size bird has a bright red beak and legs and dark plumage.

(CNN) — No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century.