12 Surprising Flightless Birds We all know ostriches, emus, and penguins can't fly. But these flightless ducks, sea birds, and parrots will make you do a double-take.

This video explores Mission Beach, located in Far North Queensland, Australia. Known for its long beaches and access to tropical rainforest, the area is one of the few places where cassowaries—large ...

Many birds fly, but some, like penguins and ostriches, don't, revealing an evolutionary twist. Flightless birds adapted to land or water when survival didn't require flying. Lacking a keel, crucial ...

These birds are part of a pattern that plays out across the world’s islands. Wherever predators are kept away by expanses of water, birds become flightless—quickly and repeatedly.

Flightless bird species at risk of extinction Date: December 6, 2020 Source: University of Gothenburg Summary: Bird species that have lost the ability to fly through evolution have become extinct ...

Citations K.J. Mitchell et al. Ancient DNA reveals elephant birds and kiwi are sister taxa and clarifies ratite bird evolution. Science. Vol. 344, May 23, p. 898. doi: 10.1126/science.1251981.

Scientists have found a new species of flightless bird on Calayan Island in the Philippines, the conservation group BirdLife International said Tuesday.

This means that a single species, the white-throated rail, evolved to be flightless twice — a phenomenon known as "iterative evolution," according to a statement from the University of Portsmouth.

Elephant birds were large, flightless and lived in what is now Madagascar until a mixture of habitat loss and potential human meddling led to their demise between 500 and 1,000 years ago.