Flightless species of birds (such as ostriches, which are the largest living birds) tend to outsize any of the largest birds ...
Bizarre birds like the Kakapo and Secretary bird are uniquely striking birds, making them the weirdest-looking birds in the ...
Study Reveals Ancient Flightless Birds Helped Spreading Colorful Native Fungi, Highlights Ecological Balance It is a finding ...
An intact, fossilized specimen of the world’s largest egg—of any known species ever on Earth—entered the National Geographic ...
New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...