Rare attacks helped brand the cassowary as deadly, but habitat loss and human activity now pose a far greater threat to the ...

Australian people have a reputation for being hardy and fearless — after all, when you live in a country that has every kind of poisonous snake and spider known to man, not to mention the elusive ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Far north Queensland volunteers are being praised for helping the region's cassowaries to recover after Cyclone Yasi. The Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) began a feeding program for the ...

Scientists have photographed the rare southern cassowary in the Daintree, using a clever ploy. FAKE FRUIT LURES have been used to photograph the shy and endangered southern cassowary, by scientists in ...

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