Many birds fly, but some, like penguins and ostriches, don't, revealing an evolutionary twist. Flightless birds adapted to ...

Cats are hunters that have helped humans throughout history. However, this skill also takes a tragic turn with the case of one cat and an entire bird species.

The flightless bird went extinct 700 years ago. The reconstructed DNA of a New Zealand bird that went extinct about 700 years ago could change what we know about lost species and increase the ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century.

I'd been entertained and enchanted by the many of the 150 or so small concerts Andrew Bird performed on Instagram during the pandemic.

Penguins are a bit different from other flightless birds. They haven’t just lost the ability to fly– their wings have completely changed shape, turning into strong flippers made for swimming.

The flightless Aldabra rail went extinct 136,000 years ago when its atoll home sank beneath the waves. Then it evolved again.

There’s bad news for those hoping to crown — yet again — the kākāpō as New Zealand’s “Bird of the Year”: The flightless bird, also known as the world’s fattest parrot, isn’t in ...

Bestselling crime novel 'Truth is a Flightless Bird' is being developed for TV with Adam Targum as showrunner.

Flightless birds, however, are another story. At least two factors have allowed dinosaurs, including birds, to evolve to a wide range of sizes.

The Laysan rail was a small, flightless bird native to the Northwestern Hawaiian Island of Laysan. It was last seen in the 1940s. Habitat loss, predators like rats, and the prolonged world wars in ...

And now researchers have uncovered and reconstructed the skull of a 6.5-foot-tall, 500-pound flightless bird that they’ve nicknamed the “giga-goose,” resolving more than a century of ...