Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The woolly flying squirrel and South Island takahe are two ...

It's one thing to face down supernatural creatures when you're a rough-and-tumble badass like Resident Evil Requiem's Leon Kennedy. It's another thing entirely to encounter eldritch horrors when ...

Q. I am pretty sure that ostriches are the biggest birds in the world. But what is the biggest bird in North America? A. The first step is to define “big.” Andrew Lydeard, program coordinator of ...

In 1932, the Government of Australia entered into an unconventional 'war' with an unexpected adversary, namely, a large population of approximately 20,000 emus, as reported in Australian Geographic.

They are a part of who we are and our sense of belonging here,” said Paul Ward, founder of the Capital Kiwi Project.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The kiwi, New Zealand’s sacred national bird, vanished from the hills around Wellington more than a ...

Early birds were like ‘T rex reincarnated’, says scientist who believes avian skulls offer insight into dinosaurs’ behaviour T rex is often depicted as more brawn than brains, but now scientists are ...

Flightlessness has evolved repeatedly and independently across avian lineages, yielding a remarkable array of giant and diminutive species from ratites to extinct ...

Scientists were surprised to discover cassowaries glow under ultraviolet light. It may help the birds distinguish between different species. The casque of a southern cassowary glows blue-green in ...

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