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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
century, although more probably around 1000 AD. The elephant bird finally
succumbed, perhaps partly through people stealing its eggs which were up to a
metre in circumference! and would have provided as much food as 200 chicken
eggs.
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How Big is It?: A Big Book All about Bigness
Some people think the elephant bird was the basis for the legend of the giant bird
called the roc from the tales of Sinbad. But we know the elephant bird was real
because it left behind some bones and a huge number of eggshells. And when ...
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Buddhist Sculpture of Northern Thailand
13.1.9 HATSADILING, ELEPHANT-BIRD Two other winged creatures enliven the
Thai mythological menagerie: the hatsadiling and the kinnari. Both are composite
figures related to the hong. In some aspects the hatsadiling is similar to the ...
EGG SIZE of no living bird equals the huge eggs of the now-extinct Elephant Bird
of Madagascar. These big birds, which stood up to 10 feet tall, were exterminated
by primitive humans, but shell remnants have been found measuring 13.5 ...
When a lazy bird hatching an egg wants a vacation, she asks Horton, the elephant, to sit on her egg--which he does through all sorts of hazards until he is rewarded for doing what he said he would.
Th e Elephant Bird Eggs the size of a dinosaur's, Legs as big as a beam, The
Elephant Bird, the Elephant Bird Was the ten-foot bird supreme. Claws as sharp
as razor blades, Beak like a broad-head spear, The Elephant Bird, the Elephant
Bird ...
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Eggs, Nests, and Baby Dinosaurs: A Look at Dinosaur Reproduction
The largest bird egg is that of the extinct elephant bird (Aepyornis) from
Madagascar (Fig. 6.21, 6.22). At 7,300 cm', the egg has a larger volume than the
biggest known dinosaur egg, Megaloolithus, which is about 4,189 cm3. Fig. 6.20.
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Over the Lip of the World: Among the Storytellers of Madagascar
He was so dazzled by that smoke that he sent for his errand servant, Juorombe (
Elephant Bird), to go down to the earth, and said: "Juorombe, go down and ask
who dares to send this dazzling smoke up to me?" And Elephant Bird descended
...
The entire elephant bird family is extinct due to over-hunting, destruction of
habitat and possibly natural climate change. Aepyornis maximus Geoffroy Saint-
Hilaire 1851, p. 104 (cf. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1850, p. 209) (Masikoro,
Madagascar) ...
Julian P. Hume, Michael Walters,
2012
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Siho and Naga--Lao Textiles: Reflecting a People's Tradition ...
Hong - Swan, Houng - Eagle, Hadsadiling - Bird-Elephant Bird motifs are part of
many antique and modern Lao textiles. For young girls who spent many hours
quietly weaving, birds were companions who represented the weaver's free spirit,
...
Edeltraud Tagwerker,
2009
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... was always in harmony with nature (tell it to the North American megafauna, the Moa of New Zealand and the Elephant Bird of Madagascar!). «Power Line, Iul 15»
Bruce Museum's Science Curator Is Named to '40 Under 40' List
Here visitors encounter giant lemurs, pygmy hippos and the elephant bird, a giant flightless species with an egg holding the volume of 150 ... «Patch.com, Iul 15»
8 kids' stories that bug the heck out of me
Even more bothersome is the fact that an elephant bird comes out of the egg. How does that even happen? Did Horton's weight squash the bird ... «BabyCenter, Iul 15»
Museum's curator named to 40 Under 40
“Here visitors encounter giant lemurs, pygmy hippos and the elephant bird, a giant flightless species with an egg holding the volume of 150 ... «Greenwich Sentinel, Iun 15»
Alone with evolution
This giant egg is an exact replica of one belonging to the largest bird to walk the Earth, Aepyornis maximus, a species of elephant bird once ... «Harvard Gazette, Iun 15»
Giant elephant bird egg for sale at London auction
London (AFP) - A rare egg from the giant extinct elephant bird will go under the hammer at auction house Sotheby's in London this week, and is ... «Yahoo News, Apr 15»
Would You Shell Out $70000 for This Massive Egg?
Indigenous to the island of Madagascar, the elephant bird typically grew to about three meters and weighed in at an impressive 450kg. «artnet News, Apr 15»
Easter Science: 5 Odd Facts About Eggs
The elephant bird egg is more than twice the size of an ostrich egg. Credit: Paul Sweet | AMNH. View full size image. The largest known avian ... «Live Science, Apr 15»
Eggstraordinary! FOOT-LONG elephant bird egg complete with …
The rare egg, which is 12 inches long and more than eight inches in diametre, belonged to the now extinct elephant bird that lived on ... «Daily Mail, Mar 15»
Italian customs officers seize rare giant egg
BERGAMO, Italy, March 19 (UPI) -- Customs officials in Italy said they seized a large "elephant bird" egg fossil that a man attempted to ship to ... «UPI.com, Mar 15»