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.

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 ...

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Madagascar is home to some of the world’s most unique flora and fauna. And, up until about a thousand years ago, it was home to the world’s largest known bird species. Meet Madagascar’s legendary ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An adult brown kiwi (Apteryx australis) beside the egg of a huge elephant bird (Aepyornis maximus) is shown in this undated ...

Scientist discover what may have killed world’s largest bird A new discovery of the ‘Elephant bird’ may explain how the world’s largest birds were killed. Analysis of bones from now-extinct elephant ...

Archaeologists estimate that the last time a human being laid eyes on an elephant bird, Aepyornis, a native species of the island of Madagascar, was in the 17th century, but for one Humboldt State ...

A museum in Buffalo, N.Y., recently discovered that a rare elephant bird egg in its collection had been mislabeled as a model for decades. A collections manager at the Buffalo Museum of Science was ...