You may have thought Big Bird was unrealistically gigantic, but he’s still not the largest bird to ever walk the Earth. That honor goes to elephant birds, which stood 10 feet tall and roamed ...

Towering over nine feet tall and weighing over 1,500 pounds, the aepyornis has a pointy beak and powerful talons. Sometimes called "flightless giants," the birds lived more than 1,200 years ago and ...

Among its most fascinating historical inhabitants was the elephant bird (Aepyornis maximus), a colossal, flightless bird that once lived across the island. Standing over three metres tall and weighing ...

The newest baby at the Fort Worth Zoo officially has a name. After opening up voting to the public, the female Asian elephant ...

History has not been kind to the elephant bird of Madagascar. Standing nearly 10 feet tall and weighing up to 1,000 pounds — or so researchers believed — this flightless cousin of the ostrich went ...

Now that's a big bird! Research from the University of Colorado Boulder and an Australian university revealed a new lineage of elephant bird that used to roam Madagascar, and could help scientists ...

Madagascar’s extinct elephant birds – the largest birds ever to have lived – have captured public interest for hundreds of years. Little is known about them due to large gaps in the skeletal fossil ...

The largest birds ever known to scientists preferred roaming at night and were possibly blind, according to a study from researchers at the University of Texas at Austin. The elephant bird was a ...

The Fort Worth Zoo has named their new baby Asian elephant, thanks to the public's help; she's named in honor of a former ...

The Fort Worth Zoo’s new baby elephant now has a name, after the public cast more than 18,000 votes for their favorite. The ...

After gathering more than 18,000 votes from the public, the Fort Worth Zoo has a name for its newest addition — a baby ...