According to scientists, it's evidence that the elephant birds of Madagascar were hunted and butchered for food. The remains have been dated to about 10,000 years ago. Until now, the first ...

The largest eggs still being laid today come from ostriches. The biggest of those eggs on record weighed in at an impressive 2.589 kilograms (5.7 pounds), or about the weight of a small house cat.

Laid by an elephant bird, the egg is 30.5 centimetres tall and equivalent in volume to 150 or so chicken eggs. Endemic to Madagascar, elephant birds (Aepyornis maximus) were flightless.

Remains of the so-called Elephant bird, which could run like an ostrich and was some 80 centimetres tall, have been discovered in the Orenburg region in the south Urals, Vladimir Yefimov told TASS.

TUESDAY, Nov. 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- The H5N1 strain of avian flu is now passing easily among South America's elephant ...

Among the centre's most impressive examples is a rare, complete and colossal egg of the extinct Madagascan elephant bird One of the biggest eggs in the world is being displayed to the public in Leeds.

It's back! The iconic elephant that was destroyed by Mother Nature has risen from the dead in a Central New York field.

Mass elephant seal deaths have been reported in ... acknowledged the first avian influenza case on Bird Island in October 2023, (on the brown scuba population) adding that the number of other ...

The sea mammals' population may slowly rebound, but in 2023 mutant bird flu killed an estimated 17,000 elephant seals, including about 97% of their pups, researchers reported Nov. 11 in Nature ...

The sea mammals' population may slowly rebound, but in 2023 mutant bird flu killed an estimated 17,000 elephant seals, including about 97% of their pups, researchers reported Monday in Nature ...