An enormous creature — considered by some to be the "world's most dangerous bird" — shocked beachgoers in Bingil Bay in northeastern Australia as it rose from the water and shook itself off, the ...

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.

A day for the 'most dangerous bird in the world'? Yes, you read that right. September 26 has been set aside as the World Cassowary Day. The cassowary is a large and colored bird related to the emu, ...

The eye of a cassowary.(Dani Daniar / EyeEm Getty) Loved by European emperors and Queensland beachgoers alike, the nationally endangered southern cassowary now has its very own day on September 26, ...

Remember the iconic scene in Jurassic Park when doctors Sattler, Malcolm, and Grant first set eyes on a dinosaur? They see it before we do, so our first experience begins through their eyes. Grant ...

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FILE - In this June 30, 2015, file photo, an endangered cassowary roams in the Daintree National Forest, Australia. On Friday, April 12, 2019, a cassowary, a large, flightless bird native to Australia ...

A Florida man was killed on Friday by what ornithologists say is an extremely dangerous bird. It was a cassowary – an enormous, flightless bird around which even experienced zookeepers take ...

(CN) — Long before humans domesticated chickens, they had tamed the much larger and dangerous cassowary bird, according to new research released Monday. "This behavior that we are seeing is coming ...

Beachgoers in Australia were shocked when an enormous bird, considered by some to be the world's most dangerous, emerged from the water on Oct. 31 and shook itself off. The bird, called a cassowary, ...

All birds are living dinosaurs, but the dagger-clawed cassowary especially looks the part. Even wildlife biologists call cassowaries the world's most dangerous bird—and yes, it has been known to kill ...