Cassowaries are considered one of the world’s most dangerous birds
New research suggests that the relationship between humans and cassowaries dates back to the Late Pleistocene era, several thousand years before humans domesticated chickens and geese. “And this is not some small fowl,” said Kristina Douglass, an archaeologist at Penn State University. “It’s a huge, ornery, flightless bird that can eviscerate you – most likely the dwarf variety that weighs 20 kilograms.”