Elephant Bird
What would you get if Big Bird and Snuffy had a child? You'd get one messed up, yet massive creature known as the Elephant Bird.
Today we'll look at the:
Elephant Bird
Quick Facts:
1) Extinct around or before 1640
2) From Madagascar
3) The heaviest bird to ever live based on skeletal remains and standing around 10 feet tall.
4) The egg has the volume of 160 chicken eggs
5) May have been around when Europeans first arrived though accounts aren't totally clear.
6) You can buy elephant bird eggs and shell fragments which still wash ashore on Ebay.
1) Extinct around or before 1640
2) From Madagascar
3) The heaviest bird to ever live based on skeletal remains and standing around 10 feet tall.
4) The egg has the volume of 160 chicken eggs
5) May have been around when Europeans first arrived though accounts aren't totally clear.
6) You can buy elephant bird eggs and shell fragments which still wash ashore on Ebay.
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