Elephant bird egg and hummingbird egg

Common Name: Elephant Bird and Hummingbird eggs
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Dimensions: Elephant Bird egg: Centimetres: 33 x 24
Hummingbird egg: Centimetres: 1 x .5
Museum ID Number: ROM2004_1063_6
Image Number: ROM2004_1063_6

The egg of the Elephant Bird (Aepyornis maximus) is the largest single cell in the animal kingdom. Elephant Birds once lived on the island of Madagascar, off the southeast coast of Africa but went extinct 300 to 400 years ago. Hummingbird eggs are the smallest bird eggs. Hummingbirds lay one to two eggs in their nests. The volume of an Elephant Bird is roughly equivalent to 200 chicken eggs or 10,000 Hummingbird eggs!