Rare attacks helped brand the cassowary as deadly, but habitat loss and human activity now pose a far greater threat to the ...

Australian people have a reputation for being hardy and fearless — after all, when you live in a country that has every kind of poisonous snake and spider known to man, not to mention the elusive ...

The cassowary—Australia's six-foot-tall, 180-pound jungle bird—is a pushy, hard-pecking, head-butting, talon-swiping thug on the loose, and humans trespass in its habitat at their own risk. But on our ...

Aussies have been left stumped after a lone cassowary was spotted in remote bushland 140km away from its native habitat. Southern cassowaries typically reside in the dense, tropical rainforests ...

A rural chopper pilot spotted the adult Cassowary running over scorching, arid Savannah country near Mount Surprise last month, at least 150 kilometres from the nearest known habitat of the endangered ...

Ripe fruit plunks to the ground and rolls to the road at my left. That instant, the cassowary bursts from a tangle of ferns outside Clump Mountain National Park near Mission Beach, Australia. The bird ...

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Ripe fruit plunks to the ground and rolls to the road at my left. That instant, the cassowary bursts from a tangle of ferns outside Clump Mountain National Park near Mission Beach, Australia. The bird ...

Historical records have revealed the puzzling appearance of a cassowary in outback Queensland may not be the first time the endangered birds have strayed far from home. A rural chopper pilot spotted ...