How to Use elephant bird in a Sentence

elephant bird

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• The extinct elephant bird could grow to over ten feet tall and weigh in at around half a ton, with its eggs about 180 times the size of a chicken egg.
  — Jennifer Welsh, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2010
• Analysis of bones from now-extinct elephant birds could shed new light on the fate of the giant fowls.
  — James Rogers, Fox News, 13 Sep. 2018
• Compared to extinct elephant birds and moas, Pachystruthio had longer, more slender leg bones, which tells us how the bird moved.
  — Jenny Howard, National Geographic, 26 June 2019
• According to him, scientists haven't been able to figure out why the elephant bird disappeared.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2023
• The egg is also the second-largest discovered from any creature, coming in second to an egg from the extinct Madagascan elephant bird.
  — Joshua Bote, USA TODAY, 19 June 2020
• Much of the island’s megafauna (including nearly 10-foot-tall elephant birds and lemurs the size of gorillas) has been driven to extinction.
  — New York Times, 5 May 2020
• The 40 or so elephant bird eggs that are owned by public institutions exist in varying states of completeness.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 23 Apr. 2018
• The skeleton and egg of a Madagascar elephant bird described as Aepyornis in a 1913 engraving by Monnier.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2018
• The 68-million-year-old egg, called Antarcticoolithus bradyi, is the first fossil egg ever found in Antarctica, only outsized by the eggs of Madagascar’s extinct elephant bird.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 17 June 2020
• Thousands of years ago, humans lived alongside behemoths such as giant lemurs, dwarf hippos, giant tortoises and the world’s largest bird, the elephant bird, on the island of Madagascar.
  — Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Oct. 2020
• Only two elephant birds from Madagascar, Vorombe titan and Aepyornis maximus, beat this ancient giant in terms of size.
  — Jenny Howard, National Geographic, 26 June 2019
• Others belonged to extinct species including Madagascar's 3-metre tall elephant bird and the giants moas of New Zealand.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2010
• Experts say there are fewer than 40 intact elephant bird eggs held in public institutions.
  — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 25 Apr. 2018
• Leacock hopes that the newfound specimen at the Buffalo Science Museum will prove valuable to experts who are interested in the elephant bird.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 23 Apr. 2018

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