#flightless bird

Author: Tina Hesman Saey / Source: Science News Evolutionary tweaks to DNA that bosses genes around may have grounded some birds. New genetic analyses show that mutations in regulatory DNA caused ratite birds to lose the ability to fly up to five separate times over their evolution, researchers

Author: Sarah Laskow / Source: Atlas Obscura Arriving on Inaccessible Island—after the inevitable odyssey of getting there—you hear the sound of the Inaccessible Island rail everywhere. The smallest flightless birds in the world, the rails scurry around the vegetation, feasting on worms, berries,

Author: Natasha Frost / Source: Atlas Obscura The lush vineyards of Martinborough, New Zealand, sit upon a thick crust of limestone. At one time, a few thousand years ago, the rocky landscape was entirely covered with thick native bush, and was home to countless reptiles and flightless birds,