Archaeologists estimate that the last time a human being laid eyes on an elephant bird, Aepyornis, a native species of the island of Madagascar, was in the 17th century, but for one Humboldt State … ...

It was 10 feet tall and weighed more than 1,000 pounds. But that didn’t stop it from going extinct. An intact, fossilized specimen of the world’s largest egg—of any known species ever on ...

Elephant birds were about 10 feet tall and weighed close to 1,000 pounds. Their massive eggs were the equivalent of several dozen chicken eggs and they may have gotten their common name from their ...

The Buffalo museum acquired the elephant egg in 1939 from a London taxidermist, who purchased it on the island of Madagascar, where the birds lived in a tropical rainforest.

Christie's auction house said the foot-long, nearly nine-inches in diameter egg fetched 66,675 pounds ($99,250). It had been valued at 20,000 to 30,000 pounds pre-sale, and was sold to an ...

Before they were driven to extinction, giant elephant birds roamed Madagascar, weighing up to 2,000 pounds and towering 10 feet tall. A new analysis gives hints as to how many species there once were.

An elephant bird egg (Aepyornis maximus) reconstructed from fragments in a Toliara (south-west Madagascar) market. In life, some species of elephant bird laid eggs up to 10kg in weight – the volume of ...

Elephant birds, due to their size and flightlessness, would have been relatively easy targets for human hunters. The consumption of their eggs, each one large enough to hold the equivalent of about ...

But the cells are valuable as proxies for elephant egg cells or even embryos, allowing the scientists to continue their work without harming endangered animals. They may, for example, transform the ...