Elephant bird egg (IMAGE)

University of Colorado at Boulder

Elephant bird egg

Caption

What a whole Aepyornis egg would have looked like when freshly laid, seen in a market near the town of Toliara on the southwest coast of Madagascar.

Credit

Gifford Miller

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