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 ...

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 ...

Before they were driven to extinction, giant elephant birds roamed Madagascar, weighing up to 2,000 pounds and towering 10 feet tall. A new analysis gives hints as to how many species there once were.

So, in 2005, when he was awarded $25,000 as part of the Geological Society of America’s Easterbrook Distinguished Scientist Award, Miller gathered a small team to study the evolutionarily elusive ...

Now that's a big bird! Research from the University of Colorado Boulder and an Australian university revealed a new lineage of elephant bird that used to roam Madagascar, and could help scientists ...

Elephant seal carcasses and a dead bird line the beach at Punta Delgada in Argentina on Oct. 10, 2023 following an outbreak of HPAI avian influenza there. (Ralph Vanstreels, UC Davis) The authors said ...

Hundreds of elephant seals dead as bird flu hits Antarctic, raising fears penguins could be next “If the virus reaches those populations, they are in threat of extinction," one expert told New ...

An elephant bird egg (Aepyornis maximus) reconstructed from fragments in a Toliara (south-west Madagascar) market. In life, some species of elephant bird laid eggs up to 10kg in weight – the volume of ...

A graveyard of elephant seal pups at Punta Delgada in Chubut province, Argentina, last October. The bird flu virus, H5N1, is also responsible for the ongoing outbreak among dairy cows in the U.S ...

You may have thought Big Bird was unrealistically gigantic, but he’s still not the largest bird to ever walk the Earth. That honor goes to elephant birds, which stood 10 ...

The elephant bird was the heaviest bird to ever walk the earth. Also, its eggs were 150 times the size of a chicken egg and thick as a dinner plate.