Eggs from Aepyornis maximus and Gallus domesticus


Scale comparison using eggs from a chicken (Gallus domesticus), and the largest known extinct bird, the elephant bird (Aepyornis maximus).


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Photo credit: © Natural History Museum, London / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: aepyornis, aepyornithidae, aepyornithiformes, animal, aves, bird, black, brown, chicken, domesticus, egg, elephant, flightless, fowl, galliformes, gallus, hen, maximus, phasianidae, ratite, sauropsid, sauropsida, vorompatra