WELLINGTON, New Zealand --Research linking New Zealand's diminutive kiwi with a giant extinct bird from Africa is prompting scientists to rethink how flightless birds evolved. A report published ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Research linking New Zealand's diminutive kiwi with a giant extinct bird from Africa is prompting scientists to rethink how flightless birds evolved. A report published ...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - They might be the odd couple of the bird world. Scientists on Thursday identified the closest relative of New Zealand's famed kiwi, a shy chicken-sized flightless bird, as the ...

A rare kiwi chick was hatched at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium on Wednesday, marking just thethird time the bird has been successfully hatched in North America. Only five of the birds have been ...

Based on a new study, New Zealand's kiwi is not linked to the emu from Australia and both flightless birds used to be able to fly. It appears that the kiwi is from the extinct elephant bird from ...

The kiwi bird's unique nocturnal behaviour is linked to some altered genes that eliminate color vision and others that modify its sense of smell, according to the first kiwi genome published in the ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Research linking New Zealand’s diminutive kiwi with a giant extinct bird from Africa is prompting scientists to rethink how flightless birds evolved. A report published ...

Turns out the kiwi bird was never related to the emu after all. That's according to new research in Australia. Scientists have long thought the kiwi was a close relative to Australia's emu — a much ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Research linking New Zealand’s diminutive kiwi with a giant extinct bird from Africa is prompting scientists to rethink how flightless birds evolved. A report published ...