After being attacked by the bird, Marvin Hajos, 75, made a 911 call from his property in Alachua County, Florida ...

Deep in the rainforests of northeastern Australia and New Guinea lives a bird that looks like it wandered out of the Cretaceous and never left. The southern cassowary stands as tall as an adult person ...

The cassowary looks less like a modern bird than like something left over from an earlier chapter of natural history. A large, flightless ratite native to the rainforests of New Guinea and ...

Marvin Hajos kept the bird despite its fearsome reputation ...

Standing nearly six feet tall with a dagger-tipped foot and a reputation for ferocity, the southern cassowary seems built for destruction. But the rainforests of Australia and New Guinea depend on ...

The post The 8 Most Dangerous Birds in North America appeared first on A-Z Animals. When you think about birds, you likely don't consider them to be dangerous or aggressive creatures, aside from a few ...

Hosts Kaitlen Daigle and Lauren Phinney sit down with Marco Wendt, wildlife ambassador for the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, to talk about cassowaries. Cassowaries are large, flightless birds ...

A cassowary chick has been born at the Paignton Zoo in the United Kingdom for the first time in 21 years. Getty Images/iStockphoto A rare cassowary chick has been born in the United Kingdom. It the ...

When you think about birds, you likely don't consider them to be dangerous or aggressive creatures, aside from a few species. You might immediately think of the melodious songbirds that remind you of ...