ARUSHA: NATURE Tanzania, a nongovernmental organisation (NGO) dedicated to wildlife conservation, has officially declared the ...

Ostriches are the largest bird in the world, and also the fastest (on land anyway). This seems like a contradiction, but it is true. These birds can run up to 69 kilometers per hour (43MPH) even ...

Drs. Alan Feduccia and Julie Nowicki of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have opened a series of live ostrich eggs at various stages of development and found what they believe is proof ...

Every now and then, a random video pops up online that sends everyone spiraling into the same question: “What is that bird?” The latest clip shows a stunning white bird strutting her stuff with total ...

An ostrich -- that's right, an ostrich -- is on the run after escaping from an Eastern Iowa farm Monday. The ostrich, named "Big Bird," escaped from its cage at Dwight and Bonnie Sanders' farm in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. When we think of flightless birds, aggressive is probably ...

Spending time in Europe in prehistoric times may have meant hunting – or perhaps running from – a giant bird three times the size of an ostrich. That’s the conclusion of paleontologists after making ...

The Red-necked Spurfowl placed third with 117 votes (60 online and 57 physical), followed by the Southern Ground Hornbill ...