A study on bird intelligence found that emus and rheas can solve puzzles to access food, proving they can innovate.

It’s already baffling how many incredible and strange creatures can be found on planet Earth, with there being well over 8 ...

New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...

giant tortoises and — as it now turns out — giant, flightless birds. by scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and the University of Colorado Boulder has confirmed that a ...

The giant, flightless bird known as the moa was originally from New Zealand and was last seen hundreds of years ago. Today the species' revival is being discussed with the help of DNA analysis.

New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's giant flightless bird, the moa. A small team of archaeologists ...

Ancient horses, early tapirs, large land crocodiles as well as giant tortoises, lizards and numerous birds lived here. Some of the latter were flightless and the largest of these was Diatryma ...