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.

A massive but surprisingly dainty “elephant bird” once wandered Madagascar, according to a new study that hands the title of largest-ever bird to a new species.. The winner? Aepyornis maximus, which ...

A study of DNA extracted from fossil eggshells is helping to shine a light on the largest birds that ever lived — the extinct elephant birds of Madagascar. Like Africa’s ostrich, Australia’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

IN addition to two short articles dealing with the preservation of wild life in Sierra Leone and Gambia, and a summary of the very important report of the Malaya Commission, the current number of ...

Towering around nine feet tall – half of that neck – and weighing in at more than 300 pounds, ostriches are the biggest birds on the planet today. But there once was an even bigger bird, which roamed ...

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.