It’s a fruit! It’s a nickname! It’s a—flightless bird? The word “kiwi” has come to identify several people, places, and things, but one is undeniably cuter than the rest. Kiwi birds are native to New ...

More than 99% of birds can fly. But that still leaves many species that evolved to be flightless, including penguins, ...

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 ...

Conservationists have discovered two kiwi chicks in Wellington, the first wild births recorded for the bird in the New Zealand capital in over 150 years. The two new chicks come just a year after the ...

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 ...