A big bird dropping. From a big bird ... Casuarius casuarius, the southern cassowary, fruit-eater-in-chief of Australia’s rain forests. Cassowaries are large, flightless birds related to ...

Mission Beach is surrounded by World Heritage rainforest, home to many southern cassowaries, the largest bird in Australia and second in the world only to the ostrich. Cassowary sand sculpture ...

Cassowaries, native to Northern Australia and New Guinea, are flightless birds dubbed the 'most dangerous' due to their powerful kicks and dagger-like claws. These 'living dinosaurs,' standing up ...

In fact, the cassowary is one of the few birds known to have killed humans, with at least two recorded deaths in 1926 and 2019. However, in both cases, the humans got too close to the bird ...

The bird's sharp beak is pointed ... of Mission Beach has affected the largest native land animal in northern Australia, I visited the Garners Beach cassowary rehabilitation facility five miles ...

Fossils of a nearly identical bird were found in Nebraska dating back 10 million years. The largest living bird, native to ...

The second, younger cassowary proved more jumpy ... and pigeon species from the Indo-Pacific region. Bird Paradise holds the largest hornbill living genetic reserve under a single zoological ...

A Florida man was fatally injured Friday by a cassowary, an emu-like animal once dubbed the “world’s most dangerous bird.” Marvin Hajos, 75, was severely injured by the bird, which he owned ...

The animal is often falsely labelled the most deadly bird in the world. Wildlife officers have released new information about a rare cassowary attack in North Queensland and issued warnings about ...