Australia’s ‘dinosaur’ bird, the fearsome cassowary, stares down extinction
If they go extinct, rainforests will suffer With legs ... These flightless birds are only found in Australia, New Guinea and ...
Entire Aussie street living in fear of 55-kilo wild bird's 'bold behaviour'
Feeding wildlife is not only dangerous to humans; it can also lead to the demise of magnificent birds like cassowaries. When ...
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Big Bird
From a big bird. I stand up and look around. I’m in the Daintree Rainforest, two hours’ drive up the coast from the seaside city of Cairns, in the far north of Australia. Here and there ...
‘A 15 million-year-old fish shows Australia was once a rainforest — which became arid’
Speaking from Sydney to Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke, McCurry explains his new find which shows climate — and change: Can ...
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Dubbed A Living Dinosaur, This Flightless And Prehistoric-Looking Bird From Australia Is At Risk Of Extinction, With Less Than 5,000 Left In The Country
Southern cassowaries are only found in rainforests in Far ... than 5,000 are still living in Australia. In general, they are considered the most dangerous bird in the world to humans.
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Invasion of the Cassowaries
The bird's sharp beak is pointed roughly at ... Steve Garrad, a conservation officer for the Australian Rainforest Foundation, was wearing a dirt-streaked khaki outfit and a pair of gaiters ...
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Study shows climate change threatens movement of birds through northern Australia
Analysing 17 years of data about the movement of nearly 800 endangered purple-crowned fairy-wrens in north-west Western Australia, researchers have for the first time been able to identify exactly how ...