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 ...

It’s a fruit! It’s a nickname! It’s a—flightless bird? The word “kiwi” has come to identify several people, places, and things, but one is undeniably cuter than the rest. Kiwi birds are native to New ...

A 56 million-year-old fossil bone helps explain how this (mostly) flightless family of birds spread to so many different ...

The kiwi, an adorable flightless bird from New Zealand, is disappearing, largely because of invasive species brought to the country’s islands by humans. So New Zealand has set a goal of exterminating ...

(AFPTV/CNN) – In a nation that celebrates the kiwi, the population of the flightless bird has plummeted. However, there are now efforts to keep the species alive in New Zealand. Conservationists said ...

There are only about 70,000 wild kiwi left in New Zealand but numbers are rising thanks to dozens of community initiatives to protect them - Copyright AFP Marty ...

Madagascar’s elephant birds — which weighed as much as three or four people and went extinct several hundred years ago — turn out to be the closest known relatives of New Zealand’s chicken-sized kiwi.

Conservationists have discovered two kiwi chicks in Wellington, the first wild births recorded for the bird in the New Zealand capital in over 150 years. The two new chicks come just a year after the ...

You've likely heard the term New Zealander referring to people living in the island nation east of Australia. However, they often go by the name Kiwi as well. If you're curious where the moniker comes ...