Ripe fruit plunks to the ground and rolls to the road at my left. That instant, the cassowary bursts from a tangle of ferns outside Clump Mountain National Park near Mission Beach, Australia.

Cassowaries may look like exotic birds, but they’re known as the most dangerous bird on Earth. This video dives into what makes these powerful, prehistoric-looking creatures so fearsome from ...

Cassowaries are massive flightless birds, second only to ostriches in weight. Standing up to 6 feet tall, they can weigh up to 160 pounds! Instead of flight feathers, they have unique, hair-like ...

"One minute it might be a cassowary or a bandicoot, or a wallaby or a snake. They just keep coming and I love them." But of all his forest neighbours, the most intriguing are the cassowaries ...

A rogue cassowary believed responsible for a rare attack on an elderly man in North Queensland has been filmed in the wild — looking bold, unbothered, and showing no fear of humans. WATCH IT HERE.

Throughout the week, rangers have been working with locals to encourage the 1.6-metre, 55-kilogram female cassowary to return to nearby rainforest. It’s believed the endangered bird was drawn to ...

A Cardwell man in his 70s was transported to Tully Hospital in a stable condition on Friday after being attacked by an adult cassowary, a Queensland Ambulance Service spokesman confirmed.

A man in his 70s was attacked by a cassowary in his backyard in Far North Queensland. He was taken to Tully Hospital with a wound several centimetres long on one of his thighs. Experts are ...