Scientists Solve a Long-Standing Mystery About Bird and Dinosaur Eggs

A bird egg can look surprisingly oversized for the body that produced it. That puzzle becomes even stranger when viewed ...
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Museum has been sitting on real elephant bird egg since 1939

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 ...
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Elephant bird, ostrich, and hummingbird eggs (IMAGE)

Eggs from the American Museum of Natural History's Ornithology Collection of an elephant bird (back), an ostrich (front right), and a hummingbird (front left, in box). Elephant birds are thought to ...
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Rare elephant bird egg could fetch more than $70,000 at auction

LONDON (Reuters) - Believed to be more than 400 years old and nearly 200 times the size of a chicken egg, an extremely rare elephant bird egg will be auctioned in London this week, with an estimated ...
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$45K rare elephant bird egg

Photos of a complete sub-fossilised elephant bird egg at Christie's auction house on March 27, 2013 in London, England. The elephant bird egg is expected to fetch 30,000 GBP when it features in ...