But a cassowary is not your regular garden bird. If an adult male stretches up to his full height, he can look down on someone five feet five—i.e., me—and he may weigh more than 110 pounds.

The cassowary, the only bird that Australians fear ... has sharp eyes and shiny black feathers, walks on two feet with large and extremely sharp claws on its feet, and can, above all, weigh ...

The cassowary gradually swims closer to the shore ... adding that cassowaries have killed pets and people before with their large, clawed feet.

An elderly man has been left badly injured by what emergency services have described as a “cassowary attack” in North ...