You may have thought Big Bird was unrealistically gigantic, but he’s still not the largest bird to ever walk the Earth. That honor goes to elephant birds, which stood 10 feet tall and roamed ...

History has not been kind to the elephant bird of Madagascar. Standing nearly 10 feet tall and weighing up to 1,000 pounds — or so researchers believed — this flightless cousin of the ostrich went ...

Towering over nine feet tall and weighing over 1,500 pounds, the aepyornis has a pointy beak and powerful talons. Sometimes called "flightless giants," the birds lived more than 1,200 years ago and ...

Now that's a big bird! Research from the University of Colorado Boulder and an Australian university revealed a new lineage of elephant bird that used to roam Madagascar, and could help scientists ...

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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. From dogs to bears to extinct birds, these are a few of the ...

Over time, birds evolved the ability to sing, and with that came a burst of evolutionary change that continues today, with ...

A newborn Asian elephant has been named ‘Lady Bird’ after a former First Lady. The 250lb female Asian elephant calf was born ...

The Fort Worth Zoo has named their new baby Asian elephant, thanks to the public's help; she's named in honor of a former Texas first lady.

The 250-pound baby elephant was named after the former First Lady who was married to Lyndon B. Johnson. The post Texas zoo ...

The elephant bird egg is in perfect condition – being intact with no cracks at all. Like a chicken egg, it is oval and cream-colored. But that is probably where the similarities stop. Size-wise, the ...