Cassowaries, native to Northern Australia and New Guinea, are flightless birds dubbed the 'most dangerous' due to their ...

The southern cassowary is related to the emu and native to the tropical forests of New Guinea and northern Australia. (Two other smaller cassowary species live in New Guinea.) Fewer than 1,500 ...

There are three species of cassowaries. The smallest is the dwarf cassowary (Casuarius bennetti), which lives in the high rainforests of New Guinea. The northern cassowary Casuarius ...

Today there are three species. Two are confined to the rain forests of New Guinea and nearby islands. The third and largest—the southern cassowary—also lives in the Wet Tropics of northern ...

They are native to New Guinea and Australia ... one nail is longer than the rest,” the article explains of the cassowary’s claw. “At five inches, it’s probably the closest thing you ...

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 ...