This week on Blurry Hysteria, the world proves once again that reality is stranger (and way funnier) than fiction. First up, we flap our way into South Africa, where a helicopter crash had one very ...

BERLIN, Vt. (WCAX) - A pair of flightless birds ruffled feathers in central Vermont Tuesday after they escaped their farm. “To me, that was the best place to spend the summer, running around on ...

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It's a suite of piano meditations that were inspired by and also feature bird songs. The album began with Cook improvising at a windowside piano, taking in the sounds of the North Carolina woods ...

Well, kinda – they’re actually kagus. Known by those native to the island territory as the “ghost of the forest”, these flightless birds are not only an emblem of the archipelago ...

Of all the tariffs President Donald Trump has rolled out, my favorite – and I do love them all, just like I’m going to love patriotically paying $579 for a new phone charger – are those ...

Humans brought with them rats, goats, pigs, deer and macaque, all of which had a taste for dodo eggs. The mysterious, flightless birds laid no more than one egg per year, and their numbers began to ...

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The account called “Penguins Against Trump” claims to be run by a group of the flightless birds living on the Heard and McDonald Islands. Some of the posts written include digs at Vice ...

Dodo, Raphus cucullatus, Didus ineptus, extinct flightless bird. Illustration signed S (George Shaw), but appears based on George Edwards' illustration in 'A Natural History of Uncommon Birds,' 1750.