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How Tall Was The Elephant Bird? Attenborough and the Giant Egg BBC Earth

How Tall Was The Elephant Bird? Attenborough and the Giant Egg BBC Earth

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Sir David Attenborough explores the true height of the elephant bird. Miquel: When they found an Aepyornis with a thigh a yard long, they thought they had reached the top of the scale, and called him Aepyornis maximus. Then someone turned up another thigh-bone four feet six or more, and that they called Aepyornis titan if they get any more Aepyornises, he reckons some scientific swell will go and burst a blood-vessel. (H. G. Wells, 1894)
Just leaving this here now that Vorombe titan has been identified as distinct. And that it may had weighed over 800 kilos.

Date: 2020-08-24

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I've read about this animal this on National Geigraphic's Perspective book. It's said that the animal became extinct because humans stole its huge eggs, which were big enough to feed a family.
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yay New Zealand: D The moa were hunted by the Maori people and the Haast eagle, but moa died and so the giant Haast eagle died too. I wish we still had Moa.
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My Hero! have always enjoyed watching him on TV.
I do wish there were reruns here in the USA. wherever
he is I wish him a most wonderful new week. Polly

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So if the giant moa was taller and the elephant bird was heavier, that means the elephant bird was truly the largest bird to have ever lived on Earth.
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