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 ...

A bird that had previously gone extinct came back to life thanks to a rare evolutionary process known as "iterative evolution." The white-throated rail bird can presently be found on the island of ...

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Birds are usually praised for their capability to glide along the skies, but it has been found that the predecessors of today's flightless giants once engaged in skilled flight and covered long ...

Not all birds can fly. Some birds have lost the ability to take to the skies. These are called flightless birds. They belong to different parts of the world and have unique features. Flightless birds ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of flightless bird on a remote island in the Philippines, the conservation group BirdLife International said Tuesday. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

The white-throated rail bird can be found in Madagascar and fossils suggest it lived there tens of thousand of years ago, died out and then evolved again. Researchers from the University of Portsmouth ...

Thanks to the "flightless" molecule, the spread of cancer from one tissue to another may one day be grounded. In a new report published in the August 2012 print issue ...