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.

In fact, the cassowary is one of the few birds known to have killed humans, with at least two recorded deaths in 1926 and 2019. However, in both cases, the humans got too close to the bird ...

The dark shape moving through the water was a cassowary, a large flightless bird native to northeastern Australia known for its territorial and "dangerous" behavior, per the Department of ...

A Cardwell man in his 70s was transported to Tully Hospital in a stable condition on Friday after being attacked by an adult cassowary, a Queensland Ambulance Service spokesman confirmed.

take place. Held at Mission Beach in Far North Queensland, the festival is the biggest local event of the year, and the biggest of any dedicated to the cassowary in the world. This year will see ...