If you ever find yourself deep in a rainforest and hear something heavy moving through the trees, you might want to stop and listen carefully. Because what is approaching could be one of the most ...

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The animal lovers at ZooEarthTV celebrate World Cassowary Day by introducing a bird so powerful and striking it can genuinely stop you in your tracks.

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Hunter's latest documentary on the Southern Cassowaries of North-East Queensland reveals insights into the behaviour of these large birds, including their extraordinary feeding behaviour of leaping to ...

All birds are living dinosaurs, but the dagger-clawed cassowary especially looks the part. Even wildlife biologists call cassowaries the world's most dangerous bird—and yes, it has been known to kill ...

One of the largest living birds, the Southern Cassowary, has a simple throat structure similar to the fellow Australian emu. Now new research confirms a common link between the cassowary and small ...

Peanut, as he has been named by locals, is regularly spotted wandering through Sue and Peter Leach’s backyard but on Monday the large native bird decided the grass looked greener inside their house.