Among its most fascinating historical inhabitants was the elephant bird (Aepyornis maximus), a colossal, flightless bird that ...

Elephant birds were flightless birds that went extinct around 1,000 years ago. It is believed that one species of the bird was the biggest bird that ever lived. They grew up to 10 feet tall and laid ...

Scientists have long been mystified about how huge, flying-capable birds such as ostriches, emus and kiwis wound up on ...

The first complete mitochondrial genome sequence of an extinct species is reported. The ratites make up a group of flightless birds unique to the Southern Hemisphere that include the kiwi, ostrich, ...

It was 10 feet tall and weighed more than 1,000 pounds. But that didn’t stop it from going extinct. An intact, fossilized specimen of the world’s largest egg—of any known species ever on Earth—entered ...

Bigger than any dinosaur egg, this cracking object is up for sale at auction house Christie’s. Laid by an elephant bird, the egg is 30.5 centimetres tall and equivalent in volume to 150 or so chicken ...