SCHOOL OFFICIALS HOPE TO EXPAND IT THIS FALL. STEVE: BIG NEWS TODAY FROM THE BLANK PARK ZOO IN DES MOINES. STACEY: THE ZOO SAYS IT’S SUCCESSFULLY HATCHED A NEW CASSOWARY CHICK. TAKE A LOOK. HOW ...

Rare attacks helped brand the cassowary as deadly, but habitat loss and human activity now pose a far greater threat to the ...

A landowner in Australia found an endangered cassowary chick and called officials who treated the injured bird then reunited it with family. Photo from the Queensland Department of Environment, ...

A mom and her child had a close call with a dangerous bird, and their narrow escape was caught on security cameras. Nearly a month after the "close encounter" in Australia, the Queensland Department ...

A cassowary chick has been born at the Paignton Zoo in the United Kingdom for the first time in 21 years. Getty Images/iStockphoto A rare cassowary chick has been born in the United Kingdom. It the ...

An endangered chick got a “second chance” after being abandoned in Australia. Photos show the injured baby before and after rescuers reunited it with family. A landowner in Bingil Bay spotted the ...

Iowa’s largest zoo as a tiny new resident. Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines reports the hatching of a southern cassowary chick. The zoo’s Ryan Bickel says it’s a creature with which many Iowans may not be ...