Elephant birds are extinct flightless birds belonging to the order Aepyornithiformes that were native to the island of Madagascar. They are thought to...
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(which also include ostriches, emus, rheas, cassowaries and the extinct elephant birds and moa). DNA sequence comparisons have yielded the conclusion that...
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7 ft) and a wingspan of 3.65 m (12.0 ft). The largest bird of all time was likely the elephant bird Aepyornis maximus, which was estimated to have weighed...
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didinus † Hildebrandt's elephant bird, Aepyornis hildebrandti † Giant elephant bird, Aepyornis maximus † Lesser elephant bird, Mullerornis modestus †...
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raise and adopt the elephant-bird (a half-elephant calf, half-bird chick), teaching him about being both an elephant and a bird. Judge Yertle the Turtle:...
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"perching" birds. Birds have wings whose development varies according to species; the only known groups without wings are the extinct moa and elephant birds. Wings...
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Horton Hatches the Egg (redirect from Morton the Elephant-Bird)
Random House. The book tells the story of Horton the Elephant, who is tricked into sitting on a bird's egg while its mother, Mayzie, takes a permanent vacation...
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Aepyornis (category Elephant birds)
Aepyornis is an extinct genus of elephant bird formerly endemic to Madagascar. The genus had two species, the smaller A. hildebrandti and the larger A...
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Aepyornithiformes (elephant birds), the latter two of which became extinct in the last 1250 years. There are other extinct birds which have been allied...
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Roc (mythology) (category Legendary birds)
fight between the Indian solar bird Garuda and the chthonic serpent Nāga. The mytheme of Garuda carrying off an elephant that was battling a crocodile...
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