Smithsonian Magazine

These Big, Fierce Birds Found Love in Australia—and Laid the First Southern Cassowary Eggs at the Adelaide Zoo in 34 Years

Zoo staffers don’t know whether the bright green eggs are viable and will ultimately hatch into chicks. However, the eggs ...

Australian Zoo Plays Matchmaker for Giant Birds, and Big Green Eggs Are Proof

A southern cassowary at the Adelaide Zoo has laid eggs there for the first time in 34 years, after a carefully managed ...

First cassowary egg in 34 years: Australian zoo welcomes rare, bright green egg

Adelaide Zoo has welcomed its first cassowary egg in 34 years. Laid by Martina, the neon-green egg follows careful breeding ...

Fluorescent Green Eggs Appear in Cassowary Habitat for the First Time in 34 Years

If you stumbled across a giant fluorescent green egg sitting on the forest floor, you might wonder whether you’d accidentally ...