Australia is home to an immediately recognisable array of weird and wonderful creatures. Now scientists have found evidence of even more unusual inhabitants from the nation's past. Archaeologists have ...

The Pacific's last megapode - a bird with large feet that uses hot volcanic ash to incubate its eggs - has been rescued from the brink of extinction, researchers said. Dr Dick Watling, an independent ...

Bird enthusiasts will be disappointed to know they were born millions of years too late. Paleontologists from Flinders University in Australia have discovered five extinct megapode birds—among them, a ...

There are some animals you look at and wonder: How in the world did they evolve? One such bird is the megapode. This is a bird that, to carry on its species, creates a nest that incorporates materials ...

Ten years after a bold attempt to save the last megapodes of the Pacific islands, hundreds of the birds have been found living and breeding. The discovery doubles the number of malaus, as the ...

It has been described as a "giant flying turkey" the size of a grey kangaroo by Australian scientists. It is actually an extinct species of megapode bird - an ancient cousin of the modern Malleefowl, ...

This week was for the birds — in a good way: Two previously endangered species seem to be enjoying a rebound. The population of the once desperately rare Polynesian Megapode has doubled and the bird ...

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