Most people rarely give eggs a second thought—until they hear about one that could rewrite the story of a species or stump ...

San Francisco Gate -- A Kent, U.K., antiques dealer and paleontologist is offering for sale a giant egg laid by a great elephant bird of Madagascar. Asking price? £5,000 (more than $7,000 U.S ...

Related to other modern flightless birds like ostriches and emus, the elephant bird lived on the island of Madagascar until it became extinct around the 17th century. Their eggs had a volume ...

Kinder Eggs are coming to the U.S. — legally. The hollow chocolate egg with the toy surprise inside has not been allowed in the states due to a 1930s law banning candy with non-food objects ...

The auction house expects the egg to go for more than $45,000. Extinct since the 17th century, elephant birds were found only on the island of Madagascar. Researchers believe the birds went ...