With dagger-like claws and explosive kicks, the cassowary has earned a reputation as the world’s most dangerous bird. But is ...

The casque of the cassowary glows blue-green under UV light, revealing unseen patterns that could help distinguish species ...

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 ...

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 ...

(CN) — Long before humans domesticated chickens, they had tamed the much larger and dangerous cassowary bird, according to new research released Monday. “This behavior that we are seeing is coming ...

There lives in the heart of the Australian and New Guinea tropical rainforest a bird that would seem like it belonged in a dinosaur movie: the cassowary. The bright blue face, helmet-like headpiece, ...

Beachgoers in Australia last month initially thought it was a turtle or a shark’s dorsal fin in the ocean. But upon closer inspection, they were stunned to see a cassowary – sometimes dubbed "the ...

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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 ...

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, ...