Elephant Bird
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
extinct, flightless bird of the family Aepyornithidae. Once native to the island of Madagascar, these gigantic birds may have survived until as late as 1649.
Aepyornis maximus, Elephant Bird
Ms. Amy Balanoff - Columbia University
Timothy Rowe - The University of Texas at Austin
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Elephant Bird, Aepyornis maximus and/or A. medius (Madagascar, 16th century?)
The taxonomy of the elephant birds is not fully resolved; it is certain that at least one taxon survived until some 1000 years ago at least.
The Elephant Bird
The Elephant Bird is considered to be the biggest bird that has walked the face of this earth. It is considered to be the inspiration behind the Roc that terrorized Sinbad. It is now extinct but not much is known of it.
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The now-extinct elephant bird of Madagascar laid an egg that weighed 27 pounds.
The Kiwi is the smallest member of that group of birds called the ratites, the group that contains the world's largest birds, the emu, rhea, ostrich and cassowary, as well as the extinct elephant birds of Madagascar and the Moas of New Zealand.
Other members include rheas, emu, cassowaries, and the largest bird ever, the now-extinct Elephant Bird (Aepyornis).
Moa ancestors (sciblogs.co.nz)
What happened to the moa? (terranature.org)
Moas and elephant birds (messybeast.com)
Moa article (nzbirds.com)
Moa (wikipedia.org) ...
 See also: Elephant, Hummingbird, Cassowary, Ostrich, Fly
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