New research analyzing eggshells sheds light on the 1,000-pound elephant birds that once roamed Madagascar.

You know him as the mastermind behind the epic films about hobbits and orcs, but now Peter Jackson is taking on a project ...

The 2200 Pound Lady Birds of Madagascar A scientific shakeup seeks to reclassify the world's largest bird, a majestic ostrich-like creature that once roamed the forests and sands of Madagascar.

In the rainforests of Madagascar, it can feel like you’ve stepped into another world. The air hums with life, dense with the ...

Graham Renshaw has collected the meagre information which exists about these curious birds, one apparently a ground bird, the other arboreal, and has illustrated his description by representations ...

How did the team discover the new lineage? The team set out to collect elephant bird eggshells in 2006 from the southern half of Madagascar.

Madagascar’s extinct elephant birds – the largest birds ever to have lived – have captured public interest for hundreds of years. Little is known about them due to large gaps in the skeletal fossil ...

Madagascar is home to ~250 bird species of which 115 are completely unique to this country 1. About 15% of these species are threatened with extinction, which places Madagascar in the top 20 countries ...

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 ...

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 ...

New research analyzing eggshells sheds light on the 1,000-pound elephant birds that once roamed Madagascar.