Giant Australian flightless bird was ‘extreme evolutionary experiment’
It had a massive two-foot beak that squeezed its brain.
Tag: elephant bird
The elephant bird, the largest bird known to man, was actually nocturnal
It also had a keen sense of smell.
The biggest birds in history were probably nocturnal — and blind
They did, however, have an excellent sense of smell.
Scientists describe world’s largest bird on record — it used to weigh more than many dinosaurs
A newly describe elephant bird species takes the crown for world's largest bird ever.
Humans arrived on Madagascar 6,000 years earlier than previously thought — so then what killed the elephant bird?
The story of the elephant bird's extinction just got a lot more interesting.
