"It's a modern-day dinosaur," said Peter Rowles, the president of a community group protecting the endangered birds. Do you ...

From a big bird. I stand up and look around. I’m in the Daintree Rainforest, two hours’ drive up the coast from the seaside city of Cairns, in the far north of Australia. Here and there ...

It is believed that less than 5,000 are still living in Australia ... of Environment, the birds are one of the few creatures that can gobble down and disperse large rainforest fruits.

“This is absolutely disgusting! These creatures are our Native Australian birds and have as much right as we do to this earth! We are here to protect them,” one resident posted on Facebook.

Until, that is, a certain bird appears ... is one of Australia’s national symbols. But cassowaries, which mostly keep to themselves and live in the deep rainforest where they’re less likely ...

Evolutionary biologists are fanning out and tramping through varying ecosystems in Africa, Australia ... open forest and the adjacent one a closed rainforest. The open forest lizards are smaller ...

Mission Beach is surrounded by World Heritage rainforest, home to many southern cassowaries, the largest bird in Australia and second in the world only to the ostrich. Cassowary sand sculpture ...