Big, flightless birds like the ostrich, the emu and the rhea are scattered around the ... He and some colleagues extracted DNA from the bones of an extinct bird that lived on the island of ...

Though the creature went extinct about 45 million years ago ... living in Wyoming during the correct time period, he said. Rhea feathers have a similar size and texture as the fossil feather ...

Scientists had suspected Rhea could have a thin atmosphere with oxygen and carbon dioxide, based on remote observations of Jupiter's icy moons by NASA's Galileo spacecraft and Hubble Space Telescope.

The bird is a rhea, a South American bird that looks similar to an ostrich. The strangest thing about the incident may just be that it's actually not unique, at all. Rhea escapes seem to be a ...