Prehistoric humans are under suspicion of wiping out the largest birds that ever lived after fossilised bones were discovered with telltale cut marks. According to scientists, it's evidence that ...

A list of the biggest animals that have gone extinct isn’t complete without a bird or two. Take elephant birds for example.

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. They reached 3 ...

Owen's statue at the Museum shows him holding the moa bone fragment, and one of the elephant bird eggs is on display in the Bird Gallery. The collection also contains older fossil bird specimens from ...

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.

The rare specimen is from an extinct Madagascan elephant bird, which laid eggs larger than those of dinosaurs. It is one of thousands of items kept at the Leeds Discovery Centre, which are being ...