Towering over nine feet tall and weighing over 1,500 pounds, the aepyornis has a pointy beak and powerful talons. Sometimes called "flightless giants," the birds lived more than 1,200 years ago and ...

Madagascar is home to some of the world’s most unique and remarkable species. However, one of its most awe-inspiring residents, the elephant bird, vanished from the planet roughly 1,000 years ago.

Madagascar is home to some of the world’s most unique flora and fauna. And, up until about a thousand years ago, it was home to the world’s largest known bird species. Meet Madagascar’s legendary ...

hat a whole Aepyornis egg would have looked like when freshly laid, seen in a market near the town of Toliara on the southwest coast of Madagascar. Credit: Gifford Miller hat a whole Aepyornis egg ...

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 feet tall and roamed ...

A previously unknown species of elephant bird was recently discovered on the northeastern side of Madagascar and was identified solely from its ancient eggshells Surface scatter of Aepyornis eggshell ...

What humans don’t know about the massive elephant bird could fill a book. And even what we know might need some serious revision. New information published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B ...

Curators at the Buffalo Museum of Science are shocked to discover that a replica of the rare elephant bird egg in their collection was actually the real thing. The extinct Madagascar elephant bird, ...