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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Conservationists have discovered two kiwi chicks in Wellington, the first wild births recorded for the bird in the New Zealand ...

FILE - In this Sept. 26, 1997, file photo, a handler holds Tuatahi, a 3 week old Kiwi bird, the first kiwi born at Sydney's Taronga Zoo for more than 26 years. Scientists say they have sequenced the ...

(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 ...

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 ...