“There’s just something primeval about them,” says Andrew Mack, who spent five years studying cassowaries in the wild in Papua New Guinea. “They look like living dinosaurs.” Cassowaries ...

Cassowaries are large, flightless birds related to emus and (more distantly) to ostriches, rheas, and kiwis. Today there are three species. Two are confined to the rain forests of New Guinea and ...

It's said that cassowaries are timid and typically difficult to spot. There aren't very many birds around the world that humans are afraid of but Cassowary stands out. Known as the "world's most ...

“There’s just something primeval about them,” says Andrew Mack, who spent five years studying cassowaries in the wild in Papua New Guinea. “They look like living dinosaurs.” Cassowaries are ratites, ...