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 went ...

Madagascar is home to some of the world’s most unique and remarkable species. However, one of its most awe-inspiring residents, the elephant bird, vanished from the planet roughly 1,000 years ago.

You may have thought Big Bird was unrealistically gigantic, but he's still not the largest bird to ever walk the Earth. That honor goes to elephant birds, which stood 10 feet tall and roamed ...

The elephant bird of Madagascar have been extinct for hundreds of years and as such it's pretty difficult (read: impossible) to find an elephant bird egg. The Buffalo Museum of Science knew this, so ...

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During the 19th century, European explorers enthusiastically combed Madagascar in search of the remains of the extinct elephant bird—one of the island’s now-vanished megafauna, which left behind huge ...

What humans don’t know about the massive elephant bird could fill a book. And even what we know might need some serious revision. New information published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B ...