More than 1,200 years ago, flightless elephant birds roamed the island of Madagascar and laid eggs bigger than footballs. While these ostrich-like giants are now extinct, new research from CU Boulder ...

More than 1,200 years ago, flightless elephant birds roamed the island of Madagascar and laid eggs bigger than footballs. While these ostrich-like giants are now extinct, new research from CU ...

If you encountered an elephant bird today, it would be hard to miss. Measuring in at over 10 feet tall, the extinct avian is the largest bird known to science. However, while you looked up in awe ...

Extinct elephant bird of Madagascar could live again Towering 10 feet into the air and weighing more than half a ton, it was the biggest bird that ever lived until French colonists wiped it out ...

Perhaps the two elephant bird species evolved from a shared nocturnal ancestor. This research adds more mystery to the strange, extinct elephant bird, and perhaps changes how we imagine them.

The researchers compared elephant bird DNA to the other birds and saw a close genetic link to the kiwi despite obvious differences in size, body shape and lifestyle - and the fact they lived about ...

(CBS News) A fossilized egg laid by an extinct elephant bird sold Wednesday in London for more than three times what Christie's auction house was expecting, raking in 66,675 pounds -- just more ...

Elephant birds are an extinct family of flightless birds found only on the island of Madagascar and comprising the genera Aepyornis and Mullerornis. The bird (pictured, left) was a terrifying ...

The elephant bird: fascinating facts Information about the long-extinct elephant bird, the subject of David Attenborough's latest BBC documentary. 03 March 2011 • 7:00am ...

It was laid by an Elephant Bird in Madagascar and is thought to have been discovered by archaeologists in the late 19th or early 20th century. The species became extinct sometime between the 13th ...