Tens of thousands of years ago, Australia was still home to enigmatic megafauna—large land animals such as giant marsupial wombats, flightless birds, and short-faced giant kangaroos known as ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...

In 1932, an unlikely conflict unfolded in Western Australia that left military leaders puzzled and historians amazed. Over 20,000 emus—large, fast-running, flightless birds—descended on farmlands ...