By Cooper Williams With a striking blue neck, jet black plumage and bright red drooping wattles, the southern cassowary cuts ...

Cassowaries are pretty much as badass as any bird could be. They have giant claws, bright green eggs, an extremely strong ...

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The light was ultraviolet, invisible to human eyes. Green, an anatomist and paleontologist at the New York Institute of ...

A family in Australia had a “close encounter” with cassowary birds searching for food, a video shows. The incident prompted warnings. Screengrab from a video shared by the Queensland Department of the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Cassowaries are the second largest birds on earth. Second only to ostriches. “This is Wren,” pointed Lauren Covington, Nashville Zoo Avian Keeper. “This is our Southern ...

A close call with a male cassowary and his chick has prompted urgent warnings from authorities about the dangers of feeding the prehistoric-looking, man-tall bird. Security footage captured the moment ...

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 ...