Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. When we think of flightless birds, aggressive is probably ...

Flightless Birds in the World: Birds are some of the most fascinating creatures in the animal kingdom. But what about birds that don’t fly at all? For centuries, humans have envied the freedom of ...

The kiwi, New Zealand’s sacred national bird, vanished from the hills around Wellington more than a century ago. Now the ...

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 new study in the journal Evolution, researchers ...

The dodo is often viewed as the classic example of extinction and obsolescence. However, the truth is that countless species have met similar fates. Here’s one bird whose epoch ended much in the same ...

Researchers examined dozens of bird species in museum collections looking for differences in the feathers and bodies between birds that can fly and birds that can't. They found that when birds evolve ...

The kiwi, New Zealand’s sacred national bird, vanished from the hills around Wellington more than a century ago, but now the ...