A surprising new study shows that baby chickens react the same way that humans do when tested for something called the "bouba ...

Armed with a machete, some sticky gum and a recording of birdsong on his phone, “Peni” makes his way into the forest. He’s searching for songbirds in the Sumatran jungle, specifically the white-rumped ...

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Wondering about the most dangerous birds on Earth? We've compiled this list of the Top 20 scariest birds — some that have even attacked people.

Wondering about the most dangerous birds on Earth? We've compiled this list of the Top 20 scariest birds — some that have even attacked people.

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.

Towering at five and a half feet tall, sprinting up to 31 miles per hour, and leaping up to seven feet off the ground, cassowaries are the stuff of legends. They are the third largest bird in the ...

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 ...

The relationship between sounds in words and their meaning is thought to be mostly arbitrary. Some linguists and behavioural ecologists, however, argue that the instinctive vocal responses that humans ...

Australian authorities urge people not to feed or interact with cassowaries, which have been known to kill humans, per the WWF Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

A family in Australia had a “close encounter” with cassowary birds searching for food, a video shows. The incident prompted warnings. Screengrab from a video shared by the Queensland Department of the ...