Among its most fascinating historical inhabitants was the elephant bird (Aepyornis maximus), a colossal, flightless bird that once lived across the island. Standing over three metres tall and weighing ...

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 Earth—entered ...

Bigger than any dinosaur egg, this cracking object is up for sale at auction house Christie’s. Laid by an elephant bird, the egg is 30.5 centimetres tall and equivalent in volume to 150 or so chicken ...

What drove the Elephant Bird to extinction? Kristina Douglass discusses how human impact may have aided in their extinction in Madagascar.