Scientist discover what may have killed world’s largest bird A new discovery of the ‘Elephant bird’ may explain how the world’s largest birds were killed.

Discover the elephant birds of Madagascar, including the newly classified Vorombe titan, the largest birds ever to roam the Earth. Sesame Street's beloved Big Bird has an official height of ...

New Zealand's iconic kiwi linked to closest relative, a giant bird that once lived 7,000 miles away in Madagascar. Study also suggests kiwis haven't always been flightless.

Madagascar’s extinct elephant birds – the largest birds ever to have lived – have captured public interest for hundreds of years. Little is known about them due to large gaps in the skeletal fossil ...

How did the team discover the new lineage? The team set out to collect elephant bird eggshells in 2006 from the southern half of Madagascar.

Elephant birds were the world’s largest flightless bird -- weighing half a ton and standing more than 10 feet tall -- before becoming extinct in the mid-1600s. ‘The egg has a great social history.

Smallest of the world's flightless birds, the kiwi, and the largest -- the extinct elephant bird of Madagascar -- are evolutionary birds of a feather, scientists say. DNA study links them even ...

New research analyzing eggshells sheds light on the 1,000-pound elephant birds that once roamed Madagascar.

Scientists on Thursday identified the closest relative of New Zealand's famed kiwi, a shy chicken-sized flightless bird, as the elephant bird of Madagascar, a flightless giant that was 10 feet (3 ...

More than 1,200 years ago, flightless elephant birds roamed the island of Madagascar and laid eggs bigger than footballs. While these ostrich-like giants are now extinct, new research from CU Boulder ...

Velizar Simeonovski A giant lemur in Ampasambazimba, Madagascar, approximately 2,000 years ago, with elephant birds One terrible day about 3,700 years ago, a herd of dwarf hippos stopped to drink ...

Towering around nine feet tall – half of that neck – and weighing in at more than 300 pounds, ostriches are the biggest birds on the planet today. But there once was an even bigger bird, which roamed ...