In short, people from New Zealand are called “Kiwis” because of a native bird that goes by the same name. The large, flightless bird’s brown coloring and long beak are some of its defining features.

Meet MB127 from Pūkaha National Wildlife Center, the super cute kiwi chick who needed a little help getting out of his shell.

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 ...

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

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. All the answers here are linked in some way. Once you’ve spotted the connection, any you didn’t know the first ...

Birds are usually praised for their capability to glide along the skies, but it has been found that the predecessors of today's flightless giants once engaged in skilled flight and covered long ...

The dodo, a flightless bird from Mauritius, disappeared in the 17th century due to human activity and introduced predators. Advances in cloning may allow insertion of dodo DNA into closely related ...

DALLAS — The dodo has been extinct for more than 300 years, but that isn’t stopping Dallas’ Colossal Biosciences from trying to resurrect the 3-foot-tall, flightless bird. Last Wednesday, the ...

The dodo has been extinct for more than 300 years, but that isn't stopping Dallas' Colossal Biosciences from trying to resurrect the 3-foot-tall, flightless bird. On Sept. 17, the "de-extinction" ...