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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Beachgoers in Australia were shocked when an enormous bird, considered by some to be the world's most dangerous, emerged from the ...

There lives in the heart of the Australian and New Guinea tropical rainforest a bird that would seem like it belonged in a ...

With legs like a velociraptor and a striking neon blue neck, the southern cassowary cuts a fearsome figure in the rainforests of northeast Australia. It is best to admire these human-sized birdies—and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Most birds inspire either affection or indifference. We ...

Close Encounters of the Bird Kind. A mother and son in Australia narrowly escaped an encounter with two hungry cassowaries – one of the only bird species on the planet with a track record of killing ...

The cassowary looks prehistoric for a reason. Its powerful legs and dagger-like talons have injured and killed humans who got ...

The Department of Environment and Science of Australia's Queensland Government said onlookers first mistook the bird for a large shark Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working ...

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. The bird ...

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 ...

Beachgoers in Australia were shocked when an enormous bird, considered by some to be the world's most dangerous, emerged from the water on Oct. 31 and shook itself off. The bird, called a cassowary, ...