Bruce is a 3-year-old male cassowary that will be living in the Wallaroo Walkabout. He came to the Louisville Zoo from ...

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Centre director Chloe Drew said Emma may have lived so long because he was "spoiled with lots of love and attention". The ...

In a new study in the journal Evolution, researchers compared the feathers and bodies of different species of flightless birds and their closest relatives who can still fly. They were able to ...

The Great Emu War was a real military effort to control emu populations, but these flightless birds proved to be surprisingly formidable opponents. Watch to learn the strange and hilarious history ...

They found that when birds evolve from a flying ancestor to a new flightless form, the birds' bodies, including the ratio of their wings and tails, change before the feathers do. Insights from ...

Flightless birds, such as penguins and ostriches, evolve from ancestors capable of flight. When birds lose the ability to fly, their bodies adapt more rapidly than their feathers.

Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation A petite, flightless grasshopper once thought to be extinct has been spotted in Virginia for the first time in nearly 80 years. The last time ...

Since late 2024, the avian influenza virus H5N1 has been spreading rapidly through wild bird populations, possibly spurred by fall migration. Waterfowl and seabirds have been hit hard, though ...

Australian people have a reputation for being hardy and fearless — after all, when you live in a country that has every kind of poisonous snake and spider known to man, not to mention the ...

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