12 surprising flightless birds We all know ostriches, emus and penguins can't fly. But these flightless ducks, sea birds and parrots will make you do a double take.

The Critically Endangered Kakapo Parrot Is Having One Fantastic Year A record breeding season and a spike in donations have conservationists hopeful for the flightless New Zealand bird.

Humans drove this massive, ancient bird to extinction by chowing down on its eggs Scientists think that humans ate the eggs of the 500-pound Genyornis newtoni, a flightless bird in Australia.

Family Stumbles Upon Rare Fossil Of Flightless Bird In B.C. Experts say the animal was likely related to an ancient penguin or cormorant-like bird never before found in Canada.

Slate.com Who knew Big Bird had such flow? In this video, YouTube user Benjamin Roberts gives America’s favorite flightless bird the mashup treatment, laying audio from Big Pun’s “Still Not a Player” over video from Sesame Street’s “That’s Cooper Read more ... ation.” The video is short but sweet: There’s just something so perfect about the lyrics “I’m not a player, I just crush a lot” coming from Big Bird.

Anna Faris And Chris Pratt's Son Gave This Penguin The Coolest Name Here's a flightless bird that could use its own animated movie.

New Hampshire Emu Elusive After a Week on the Run None of New Hampshire's emu farms have claimed the flightless bird.

Giant elephant bird egg for sale at London auction A rare egg from the giant extinct elephant bird will go under the hammer at auction house Sotheby's in London this week, and is expected to fetch up to 50,000 pounds ($77,000). The enormous egg, dating from the 17th century or earlier, is about 200 t Read more ... imes the size of a chicken egg. "It's the largest egg from the largest bird that ever existed," said David Goldthorpe, senior director and senior specialist in the books and manuscripts department at Sotheby's. The flightless elephant bird was native to the island of Madagascar, and is thought to have gone extinct between the 13th and 17th centuries for reasons that may include hunting by European settlers and loss of habitat.

New Species Of Terror Bird Discovered in Argentina Terror birds are a group of extinct apex predators with huge skulls, long legs, and massive, hooked beaks. These carnivorous flightless birds stalked South America until a couple million years ago. And now, researchers examining exceptionally preserv Read more ... ed fossils of a new terror bird species reveal unp…

Which Flightless Bird Are You? They will fly straight to your heart. Nowhere else though.