The mystery of the cassowary's casque has been solved, but scientists have more questions that have yet to be answered.

The southern cassowary, a flightless bird native to rainforests, is a living link to prehistoric times, possessing powerful legs and a dagger-like cla ...

The mystery of how related flightless birds ended up so far apart on different continents may have been solved.

It may sound like a joke, but scientists have long been puzzled by how the family of birds that includes African ostriches, ...

A rare chick known as the "world's most challenging bird species" to breed has been hatched at a UK zoo for the first time in ...

TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas – As cleanup continues in the Hill Country, volunteers in Travis County uncovered something prehistoric while clearing debris. They found dinosaur tracks dating back about 115 ...

Earlier this summer, researchers announced they found fossils that likely come from courting dinosaurs. To find more fossil evidence of prehistoric animals wooing and mating, scientists will have to ...

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A zoo has celebrated a "rare breeding success" following the hatching of a cassowary chick. Paignton Zoo in Devon said the ...

A dinosaur dubbed one of the "strangest" ever found boasted an elaborate armory of long bony spikes and a tail weapon, according to findings published in the science journal Nature. Spicomellus, which ...

A dinosaur fossil found in Morocco may be the most bizarrely and elaborately armoured vertebrate that has ever walked the planet. The first fossil of Spicomellus afer was discovered in Morocco and ...