There’s something almost magical about the kiwi. Imagine a bird so shy and mysterious that most New Zealanders have never ...

Despite being flightless ... the researchers found that the extinct birds are most closely related to the geographically far-flung kiwi, and evolutionarily distant from the physically closer ...

The North Island brown kiwi is a flightless, nocturnal bird that lays the biggest egg relative to its body size. Marilyn Foehrenbach Q: I’ve read that ostriches lay the biggest eggs. But what ...

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 ...

Learn how the kiwi fruit, known as the Chinese gooseberry, is native to China and was rebranded by New Zealand.

More than 99% of birds can fly. But that still leaves many species that evolved to be flightless, including penguins, ostriches, and kiwi birds. In a study in the journal Evolution, researchers ...

Well, kinda – they’re actually kagus. Known by those native to the island territory as the “ghost of the forest”, these flightless birds are not only an emblem of the archipelago ...

Moa-nalo are a group of flightless birds that lived in Hawaii for over 3 million years until humans arrived. They had large, massive turtlelike beaks, complete with teeth. Some species were as ...

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.

The only flightless parrot in the world, the Kākāpō is equally famous for its unique, almost subsonic boom. Let’s learn more about this fascinating bird and why it makes that strange ...