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 ...

An elephant was given a special treat when zookeepers set up an egg hunt to mark the Easter weekend. Four-year-old Elizabeth, the youngest of ZSL Whipsnade Zoo’s herd of Asian elephants ...

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.

LONDON – A massive, partly fossilized egg laid by a now-extinct elephant bird has sold for more than double its estimate at a London auction. Christie's auction house said Wednesday that the ...

An intact, fossilized specimen of the world’s largest egg—of any known species ever on Earth—entered the National Geographic Society's collection in 1967. The elephant bird belongs to a ...

Flightless, fruit-gobbling elephant birds resembled giant ostriches and could grow to be 11 feet high (3.4 meters). Christie's says their eggs are 100 times the size of an average chicken's.

LONDON (AP) — A massive, partly fossilized egg laid by a now-extinct elephant bird has sold for more than double its estimate at a London auction. Christie's auction house said Wednesday that ...

The egg comes from the now extinct Elephant bird, which was a flightless bird indigenous to Madagascar. It is just over 30cm tall, 200 times as large as a chicken's egg, and the bird itself is ...

Getty Images The giant egg is equivalent in volume to 150 chicken eggs Elephant birds were once a common sight on Madagascar. They weighed at least half a tonne, stood at around 3m tall and laid ...