Elephant bird egg

Fossil egg of elephant bird found in the dunes of Cape Sainte Marie in Madagascar. The elephant bird, now extinct, was gigantic in size and unable to fly: it could reach a height of over 3 meters and weigh over half a ton. It seems that its extinction occurred because of man around the sixteenth century. The eggs of this species are the largest in the world, as many as 100 times larger than chicken eggs.