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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Australian people have a reputation for being hardy and fearless — after all, when you live in a country that has every kind of ...

Cassowaries are massive flightless birds, second only to ostriches in weight. Standing up to 6 feet tall, they can weigh up to 160 pounds! Instead of flight feathers, they have unique, hair-like ...

Deep in the rainforests of Australia and New Guinea lurks a creature that looks like it stepped straight out of the Jurassic period. The southern cassowary, a massive flightless bird with razor-sharp ...

Deep in the rainforests of Australia and New Guinea lurks a creature that looks like it stepped straight out of the Jurassic period. The southern cassowary, a massive flightless bird with razor-sharp ...

With legs like a velociraptor and a striking neon blue neck, the southern cassowary cuts a fearsome figure in the rainforests of northeast Australia. It is best to admire these human-sized birdies—and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. When we think of flightless birds, aggressive is probably ...

Generally speaking, birds don’t rank high on nature’s “most threatening animals” list. But that doesn’t mean they’re completely harmless. Here are a few bird species that even humans need to watch out ...

Close Encounters of the Bird Kind. A mother and son in Australia narrowly escaped an encounter with two hungry cassowaries – one of the only bird species on the planet with a track record of killing ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. A cassowary, a giant bird with long claws on each foot, killed its owner after he fell in the backyard of his Gainesville, ...

Ripe fruit plunks to the ground and rolls to the road at my left. That instant, the cassowary bursts from a tangle of ferns outside Clump Mountain National Park near Mission Beach, Australia. The bird ...

A southern cassowary stands on a beach at Etty Bay in Queensland, Australia. These endangered birds can live up to 50 years. CHRISTIAN ZIEGLER, Nat Geo Image collection “These birds look like an ...