On the island of Madagascar, known for its unique biodiversity, an extraordinary creature once lived until just over a ...

Elephant birds were flightless birds that went extinct around 1,000 years ago. It is believed that one species of the bird was the biggest bird that ever lived. They grew up to 10 feet tall and ...

At just over a foot long and nine inches in diameter, the intact egg belonged to an elephant bird (Aepyornis maximus), a flightless herbivore endemic to Madagascar that’s been extinct since at ...

The first complete mitochondrial genome sequence of an extinct species is reported. The ratites make up a group of flightless birds unique to the Southern Hemisphere that include the kiwi, ostrich, ...