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

Ginger, a six-foot-tall southern cassowary, has a calm temperament that makes her receptive to experiments. On a warm March night in Florida in 2021, scientists wanted to find out if keratin—a protein ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On May 25, 2024, a photograph went viral on X allegedly showing a giant bird's foot, resembling that of a dinosaur. "A Southern ...

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

On May 25, 2024, a photograph went viral on X allegedly showing a giant bird's foot, resembling that of a dinosaur. "A Southern Cassowary claw. Just in case you didn't think that birds are dinosaurs," ...

Dinosaurs, fortunately for most of us, are extinct, but we share the planet with some of their relatives, and those family members are being celebrated in Washington on Saturday at the Smithsonian ...

Florida state law allows for residents to keep a variety of strange animals as pets, though there are more than a few hoops ...

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Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her work has previously appeared in Entertainment Weekly and the New York Daily News. A ...

A cassowary, a giant bird with long claws on each foot, killed its owner after he fell in the backyard of his Gainesville, Florida, home, officials told CNN. The bird's owner, Marvin Hajos -- who is ...

A man in his 70s was relaxing in his backyard in the northern Australian town of Cardwell when a cassowary found its way in and attacked, leaving him bleeding from the back of his thigh. He was taken ...

The casque of a southern cassowary glows blue-green in ultraviolet light. This cassowary, named Ginger, from the Cassowary Conservation Project in Florida, was the first living cassowary that showed ...