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.

Why it's awesome: The southern cassowary is one of the most prehistoric-looking birds on Earth. They are often likened to a modern-day dinosaur due to their massive size, vivid colouration and ...

You probably don't worry too much about birds (other than what birds are at your feeder). However, around the world there are some birds that can prove extremely dangerous to humans. These in ...

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, ...

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 ...

On May 25, 2024, a photograph went viral on X allegedly showing a giant bird's foot, resembling that of a dinosaur. "A Southern Cassowary claw. Just in case you didn't think that birds are dinosaurs," ...

Beachgoers in Australia last month initially thought it was a turtle or a shark’s dorsal fin in the ocean. But upon closer inspection, they were stunned to see a cassowary – sometimes dubbed "the ...

Bird keepers are celebrating the first-ever hatching of one of the ‘world’s deadliest chicks’. In the Cotswolds, Birdland has announced its first-ever successful hatching of a southern cassowary chick ...

Cassowaries are considered to be the dinosaurs’ closest living relative Heather Anderson and Gwen Cooper Standing eye-to-eye with a southern cassowary, it is easy to see how this giant bird is ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – Take a visit to Nashville Zoo to meet the bird that doesn’t fly! When you look at a Southern Cassowary, it might remind you of a dinosaur, like a raptor. In fact, all birds ...