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 ...

Once only found on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, the dodo was, according to a webpage from the University of Oxford's Natural History Museum, "a large flightless bird" whose physical ...

While that fashion trend thankfully came to an end, kagus have continued to face threats, with predation by dogs and other ...

It was "on purpose" that flightless avians retained into adulthood the features of young birds — big feet and stumpy wings. Their state of neoteny was an adaptation, say Olson and James ...

But make no mistake, the stars of the soon-to-be-called Kampe Bullis Farm Brewery are the flightless, yet fast ostriches. And while watering the birds, there was a commotion out front.