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.

The cassowary looks less like a modern bird than like something left over from an earlier chapter of natural history. A large, flightless ratite native to the rainforests of New Guinea and ...

Deep in the rainforests of northeastern Australia and New Guinea lives a bird that looks like it wandered out of the Cretaceous and never left. The southern cassowary stands as tall as an adult person ...

What is it? It’s a bird dropping. A big bird dropping. From a big bird.

Locals call the cassowary the "murderbird", and seeing one might remind you of something that escaped from Jurassic Park. These animals are the "most dangerous birds" in the world, so it's best to ...

A family in Australia had a “close encounter” with cassowary birds searching for food, a video shows. The incident prompted warnings. Screengrab from a video shared by the Queensland Department of the ...

Dinosaurs, fortunately for most of us, are extinct, but we share the planet with some of their relatives, and those family members are being celebrated in Washington on Saturday at the Smithsonian ...

The post Rainbow Warriors: The Critically Endangered Cassowaries and Their Role in Rainforest Ecology appeared first on A-Z Animals. World Cassowary Day on September 26 is a great chance to spotlight ...

The earliest bird reared by humans may have been a cassowary -- often called the world's most dangerous bird because of its long, dagger-like toe. Territorial, aggressive and often compared to a ...