Towering over nine feet tall and weighing over 1,500 pounds, the aepyornis has a pointy beak and powerful talons. Sometimes called "flightless giants," the birds lived more than 1,200 years ago and ...

You may have thought Big Bird was unrealistically gigantic, but he’s still not the largest bird to ever walk the Earth. That honor goes to elephant birds, which stood 10 feet tall and roamed ...

History has not been kind to the elephant bird of Madagascar. Standing nearly 10 feet tall and weighing up to 1,000 pounds — or so researchers believed — this flightless cousin of the ostrich went ...

Among its most fascinating historical inhabitants was the elephant bird (Aepyornis maximus), a colossal, flightless bird that ...

Madagascar's recently extinct elephant birds, once thought to be active during the day, were actually nocturnal, according to new research.Credit: John Maisano for the University of Texas at Austin ...

Madagascar’s extinct elephant birds – the largest birds ever to have lived – have captured public interest for hundreds of years. Little is known about them due to large gaps in the skeletal fossil ...

Now that's a big bird! Research from the University of Colorado Boulder and an Australian university revealed a new lineage of elephant bird that used to roam Madagascar, and could help scientists ...

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The elephant bird egg is in perfect condition – being intact with no cracks at all. Like a chicken egg, it is oval and cream-colored. But that is probably where the similarities stop. Size-wise, the ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Believed to be more than 400 years old and nearly 200 times the size of a chicken egg, an extremely rare elephant bird egg will be auctioned in London this week, with an estimated ...