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.

You probably don't worry too much about birds (other than what birds are at your feeder). However, around the world there are ...

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 ...

Rare attacks helped brand the cassowary as deadly, but habitat loss and human activity now pose a far greater threat to the bird’s survival. A southern cassowary stands on a beach at Etty Bay in ...