V. titan belonged to a group known as "elephant birds" that lived on the island sometime in the most recent 500,000 to 1 million years, according to the study's lead author, James Hansford, from ...

Vorombe titan, like others in the elephant bird family, lived on Madagascar a few thousand years ago. Towering nearly ten feet tall and weighing in at over 1,700 pounds, the birds were absolutely ...

In 1894, an even larger bird species was discovered called the Aepyornis titan. However, for a time that species was dismissed as being an unusually large A. maximus example.

Brad Bird has signed on to make his live-action feature directorial debut with "1906," a co-production between Warner Bros. and Disney/Pixar, with the historical San Francisco earthquake as its ...