Paleontologists have found fossils of two extinct giant birds in New Zealand: an enormous penguin that would have been nearly as tall as an average adult human, and the largest parrot ever known to ...

Back in prehistoric times, everything was a monster compared to today including human-sized penguins and parrots nearly the size of furry mascots. Two recent fossilized bones discoveries in New ...

(CNN) -- A "monster penguin" which stood as tall as a human has been identified by scientists in New Zealand. A team of researchers from the Canterbury Museum discovered Crossvallia waiparensis after ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Anyone who went to a Pirates game from 1988-96 has seen Tom Mosser, though he was usually obscured by green feathers and a big yellow beak. "It will be on my gravestone that I was ...

Hard as it may be to believe, there was a time (say, about 30 years ago) when having a black-light poster in your room was the epitome of cool. Black-light posters use inks that fluoresce when exposed ...

Well, on Friday morning it was snowing at McMurdo Station, and the pilots scrubbed our flight down to Antarctica. It being Thanksgiving, the station had Saturday and Sunday off. It seemed we were not ...

Oreo, left, and his son, Momi, are two of the hotel’s seven African black-footed penguins. Oreo is 30 years old and Momi is 7. Center, tour participants gather around Wildlife Manager Christina ...

NEW ZEALAND (CNN) -- A "monster penguin" which stood as tall as a human has been identified by scientists in New Zealand. A team of researchers from the Canterbury Museum discovered Crossvallia ...