Where are the peanuts?! A massive wild elephant was busted raiding a convenience store in Thailand late at night — before making off with a bunch of snacks. The gigantic mammoth — known to locals ...

Their eggs, weighing 10kg, were 150 times the size of a chicken’s egg. In recent years, elephant birds were found to be most closely related to the chicken-sized kiwi bird – a result that changed our ...

A wild elephant wandered out of a national park in Thailand to visit a grocery store, where the peckish pachyderm feasted on ...

Elephant bird eggs in the Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy of National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France (Danny Ye/Shutterstock). Few creatures capture the imagination quite ...

AILSA CHANG, HOST: They lay an egg a foot and a half in length. Gifford Miller is with the University of Colorado, Boulder. He says elephant birds, which are distant relatives of emus and ...

An intact, fossilized specimen of the world’s largest egg—of any known species ever on Earth—entered the National Geographic Society's collection in 1967. The elephant bird belongs to a ...

"[Elephant birds] weigh well over 1,000 pounds ... they lay an egg that's about a foot and a half in length," said Gifford Miller, a professor at University of Colorado, Boulder and one of the co ...

What a whole Aepyornis egg would have looked like when freshly laid, seen in a market near the town of Toliara on the southwest coast of Madagascar. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...