From the ostrich to the penguin and from the rhea to the emu, here is a look at some of the world's more exotic flightless birds. Ostrich The world’s largest bird, the ostrich is surprisingly ...

The dodo is the name of an extinct species of flightless bird ... the reputation of being one of the least intelligent birds among a few emu experts, including a Canadian scientist and a former ...

Bruce is a 3-year-old male cassowary that will be living in the Wallaroo Walkabout. He came to the Louisville Zoo from ...

Centre director Chloe Drew said Emma may have lived so long because he was "spoiled with lots of love and attention". The ...

They found that when birds evolve from a flying ancestor to a new flightless form, the birds' bodies, including the ratio of their wings and tails, change before the feathers do. Insights from ...

In a new study in the journal Evolution, researchers compared the feathers and bodies of different species of flightless birds and their closest relatives who can still fly. They were able to ...

Despite being flightless, the ostriches of Africa have distant relations in Australia, New Zealand, and South America. All part of a group called the ratites, these birds share some common ...

Flightless birds, such as penguins and ostriches, evolve from ancestors capable of flight. When birds lose the ability to fly, their bodies adapt more rapidly than their feathers.