When it comes to birds, the Southern Cassowary from the Northeastern tip of Australia, is the world’s third largest, second heaviest and the most dangerous.

The beautiful giant of a bird, which looks like a cross between an ostrich, a turkey and a Teradactyl, is probably a descendant of the Velociraptor that we’ve all grown so fond of. Just like the raptors, the highly endangered bird might also become extinct soon (unless Spielberg can bring it back using a dead mosquito).

The Cassowary possesses claws that are almost 5-inches long and easily panics which is what makes it so utterly dangerous.Almost as dangerous as the dreaded Mexican staring frog of Southern Sri Lanka, it’s another thing that’ll keep you awake at night.

Though the last recorded human fatality of a Cassowary attack is from 1926, its fearsome reputation as being aggressive and deadly probably doesn’t help its chances of survival much.

Hope we get to see it in real life some day.