Deep in the tropical rainforests of northern Australia, New Guinea and a scatter of nearby islands lives a flightless bird ...

Standing as tall as an adult human and cloaked in glossy black feathers, the cassowary looks more like a survivor from a ...

A team led by Michigan Technological University researcher Jared Wolfe is the first to uncover why long-lived rainforest birds are declining in an untouched environment historically considered a ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Papua New Guinea is a global hotspot of avian biodiversity, home to spectacular and behaviorally complex bird species that occur nowhere else on ...

Scientists have discovered a natural "internet of the forest" in the Amazon, where birds and monkeys share predator warnings ...

Rare attacks helped brand the cassowary as deadly, but habitat loss and human activity now pose a far greater threat to the bird’s survival. A southern cassowary stands on a beach at Etty Bay in ...

Why did evolution produce a spider the size of a dinner plate? The Goliath birdeater offers a fascinating glimpse into life on the Amazon forest floor.

You might go for a walk in the forest to disconnect from work and calm your nerves after a busy week. The chirping and calls of birds in the canopy above might be exactly what allows you to relax. But ...

Scientists studied centuries-old bird feathers from an ancient tomb on the coast, and then traced the origins back to the Amazon. By Alexa Robles-Gil About 15 years ago, George Olah, a conservation ...