But more surprisingly, we identified a mystery eggshell from Madagascar’s far north as belonging to a novel lineage of large elephant birds that weighed 230kg and laid 3kg eggs. Although these birds ...

Giant eggshells reveal the secrets of Madagascar's elephant birds. Towering around nine feet tall – half of that neck – and weighing in at more than 300 pounds, ostriches are the biggest birds ...

The team set out to collect elephant bird eggshells in 2006 from the southern half of Madagascar. Another researcher beat them to it, so the team instead focused on northern half of the island, CU ...

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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.

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 ...

“This is the first time a taxonomic identification has been derived from an elephant bird eggshell,” said co-author Gifford Miller from CU Boulder.

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 ...

But there once was an even bigger bird, which roamed Madagascar before dying out roughly 1,000 years ago: the elephant bird. Scientists don't know much about these massive birds. But a study recently ...

New research analyzing eggshells sheds light on the 1,000-pound elephant birds that once roamed Madagascar.

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