Ostriches are the largest bird in the world, and also the fastest (on land anyway). This seems like a contradiction, but it is true. These birds can run up to 69 kilometers per hour (43MPH) even ...

There are three species, none larger than your average farmyard hen. With their unusual body feathers, kiwis resemble giant rats. Flightless, they have no tails and their little wings are tucked away.

A species of huge, flightless bird that once inhabited New Zealand disappeared around 600 years ago, shortly after human settlers first arrived on the country’s two main islands. Now, a Texas-based ...

Many birds fly, but some, like penguins and ostriches, don't, revealing an evolutionary twist. Flightless birds adapted to land or water when survival didn't require flying. Lacking a keel, crucial ...

It was ruthlessly hunted to extinction by humans over 300 years ago. But scientists are one step closer to bringing the dodo back from the dead. Experts at Colossal Biosciences, a 'de-extinction ...

It has taken no end of imagination for Sir Peter Jackson, the Academy Award winning—and, not incidentally, knighted—director of the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films, to produce his entire body of ...

Scientists at a Texas-based company made a major breakthrough towards reviving the dodo bird nearly 300 years after extinction. Colossal Biosciences announced on Wednesday that researchers had, for ...