Deep in the rainforests of Australia and New Guinea lurks a creature that looks like it stepped straight out of the Jurassic period. The southern cassowary, a massive flightless bird with razor-sharp ...

A rare American bird has been spotted in Dorset and photographed by a wildlife enthusiast who described the sighting as an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bird found in some of the southernmost parts of the United States made an exceedingly rare appearance in Massachusetts last week ...

Flightless birds are among the most fascinating creatures on Earth. Having evolved in environments with few natural predators, many of these birds gradually lost the ability to fly but developed other ...

When a bird rarely seen on this continent showed up in Riverhead last month, the reaction was, as might be expected, a little cuckoo. Native to Eurasia, the bird is anything but common here: It ...